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2020-03-31 Iraq

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Posted by 3dc 2020-03-31 07:47|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 A common event: Thursday، 14 March 2019 01:59 PM
At least four people were killed and five others injured on Thursday in a gas pipeline explosion in southwest Iran. "Gas leakage from a pipeline that linked the gas network from Mahshahr city to Ahvaz city, caused the blast," ISNA quoted local official Kiamars Hajizadeh as saying. Poor safety measures and Iran's aging infrastructures blamed by some authorities for blasts in the past.

Posted by b 2020-03-31 08:43|| 2020-03-31 08:43|| Front Page Top

#2 *snicker*

Posted by DarthVader 2020-03-31 09:08|| 2020-03-31 09:08|| Front Page Top

#3 NSA fingerprints all over it.

/snark

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-31 09:35|| 2020-03-31 09:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Seems to be a fair amount of good news on today's WOT page.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-03-31 12:45|| 2020-03-31 12:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Isn't this the sort of thing the US intelligence community excels in? Didn't they do the same thing to the Soviets during the Cold War?

Of course it could always be inshallah maintenance, but who knows?

Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-03-31 13:43|| 2020-03-31 13:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Once upon a time Herb. Under Clinton it took a very deep nose dive in quality and has yet to get back to cold war level of effectiveness.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-03-31 13:45|| 2020-03-31 13:45|| Front Page Top

#7 NSA doesn't do direct action. The CIA used to do that effectively, but who knows anymore. Hanlon's Raxor applies. (Do not attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.)

Posted by Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-03-31 15:18|| 2020-03-31 15:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Yes we did, through a Canadian company that wrote specialized software for controlling natural gas pipeline pumps and valves. The Russians stole the bogus software, installed it in their pipeline control system. At the appropriate time the altered software made the equipment malfunction and hyper pressurized the pipeline resulting in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions.

Posted by TZSenator 2020-03-31 16:57|| 2020-03-31 16:57|| Front Page Top

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