Baghdad Targets, Pipeline Attacked - Democratic Underground

leftchick

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Sat Nov-08-03 06:02 PM
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Baghdad Targets, Pipeline Attacked

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/35E54290-B164-4845-A6CA-4F7206BA1A54.htm

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Two explosions have rocked the Iraqi capital Baghdad and a third has set an oil pipeline ablaze in the north of the country.

Eyewitnesses say at least one US soldier was hurt in an attack on a military convoy in the Zayouna district in central Baghdad on Saturday night.

They told Aljazeera's correspondent in Baghdad that the explosive device damaged an army vehicle. US forces immediately cordoned off the area and denied access to the scene.

In a separate attack, resistance fighters fired a rocket close to the US-led coalition headquarters in central Baghdad. There were no reported injuries.

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jenk

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Sat Nov-08-03 06:03 PM
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1. They're coordinating attacks in different countries now!!!!!

fuck, what's happening

and I hate mentioning free republic, but skimming some posts there it seems as though this has something to do with the lunar eclipse, there has also been a 2nd call for muslims to leave LA and NY.

?????

according to the loons at FR.

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kalian

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Sat Nov-08-03 06:03 PM
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2. Notice how...

the pipelines that are being attacked are either going to Turkey or
Kuwait...
Nothing is happening to the pipeline going to Haifa....
Coincidence...? I think not.

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DuctapeFatwa

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Sat Nov-08-03 06:12 PM
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3. The pipeline to Haifa is under cover ban

We aren't supposed to be talking about it or thinking about it.

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Don_G

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Sat Nov-08-03 07:21 PM
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4. If The Pipeline Is So Important

Why don't they replace the dammed thing with one made of armored steel and make Semtex and C-4 impossible to get?

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htuttle

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Sat Nov-08-03 07:30 PM
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5. Actually, they could bury it

But that would be tremendously expensive, and cut into their oil profits. Couldn't be done overnight, either.

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rustydog

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Sat Nov-08-03 08:44 PM
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6. Yes, burying it would help hide it, but the path would

be obviious and one of Georgie's bunker-buster bombs would burrow deep enough to blast the crap out of it.
pipelines are the weak link in securing oil flow to consumers.
They are fixed, they are large and can't be protected along it's entire length.

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Don_G

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Sun Nov-09-03 12:27 AM
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9. Bury It In Concrete

It's not like they don't have enough sand.

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Minstrel Boy

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Sat Nov-08-03 09:00 PM
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7. "Just burn 'em all guys. Trust me,

you'll be pissing off the right people."

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sharonstone

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Sat Nov-08-03 09:11 PM
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8. I ORDER BUSH WILL BURN TO HELL IN THIS FIRE MY LORD

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