Crude Spills into Tigris After Iraq Bomb

Source: Associated Press

Crude spills into Tigris after Iraq bomb
By BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD - A bomb exploded under an oil pipeline near the northern city of Beiji on Tuesday, causing huge quantities of crude oil to spill into the Tigris River, a police official said. The U.S. military blamed al-Qaida insurgents.

The Iraqi police official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said the bomb went off before dawn, delaying the firefighters' arrival at the scene to extinguish the blaze. Because of the danger across the country, Iraqis avoid going outside before daylight.

Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, is the home to Iraq's largest oil refinery. The U.S. military said in a statement that the part of the pipeline that was hit was some 7 feet underground and covered with a slab of concrete.

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Later the in the day, the spill reached the central city of Tikrit, more than 60 miles to the south, residents and local officials said. Water stations closed in both cities, Tikrit and Beiji.

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This is horrible.

And this has nothing to do with the Hunt Oil deal with the Kurds?

bodies, vehicles, and you name it, I think oil would only be the least of it's problems.

question is: do you think anyone is actually going to clean it up? hardly.

...before the invasion. Said it would be good for the marsh ecosystem.

I was not convinced.

I keep getting confused about that.

but man, is it surging.

"It's Al-Qaeda! Al-Qaeda!"

Congrats, Blackwater- did you let someone bomb that pipeline or did you do it yourself?