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Iraq-Jordan |
Insurgent attacks have cost Iraq $8,000,000,000 in oil revenue |
2005-01-03 |
![]() Osama bin Laden ordered his supporters to sabotage oil facilities in Iraq and the Gulf, in an audiotape attributed to the Al-Qaeda leader broadcast on an Islamist website last month. "Take jihad (holy war) to stop (the Americans) getting hold of (the oil). Concentrate your operations on the oil, in particular in Iraq and the Gulf," said the voice on the tape. Ghadban has warned that sabotage is to blame for fuel shortages that continue to plague the country despite its oil wealth, sometimes forcing people to wait a whole day to fill up their vehicles. But power supply is also affected with most sections of Baghdad plunged in darkness almost every night and residents having to rely on generators. The Dura refinery provides fuel for Baghdad's main power plant, which supplies electricity for most of the capital and outlying areas. Ghadban said attacks continued over the weekend, with a pipeline transporting crude from the oilfields of Kirkuk in northern Iraq to the Baiji refinery bombed and a power plant in Mussayab, south of the capital, also attacked. |
Posted by:Dan Darling |
#1 Don't yah know, you don't need oil in the 7th century |
Posted by: Cheaderhead 2005-01-03 5:05:44 PM |