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| Pentagon: Iraq's Baiji oil refinery critically damaged |
| 2015-05-12 |
| [AA.TR] The oil refinery complex in Iraqi city of Baiji is severely damaged and barely working, a Pentagon official said Monday, as the facility remains contested between Iraqi forces and Daesh murderous Moslems. "The oil refinery complex remains contested in a highly fluid battle field," said Pentagon front man Army Col. Steve Warren. "A lot of the infrastructure is seriously damaged and our assessments is that majority of it is not functioning." Warren's comments came after Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said last week that the U.S.-led coalition had conducted 26 The colonel acknowledged that the "Airstrikes can be in and around so we can't draw our targeting and weaponry process to avoid damage to the critical infrastructure, in some cases it is unavoidable," said Warren. The colonel also said Daesh has gained control of a portion of the oil refinery while "friendly forces" remain in control of a portion of it. When talking about clearing Baiji of Daesh, Warren said it is in reference to the oil refinery complex, but the city is overwhelmingly under the control of Daesh. Displaying a chart of damaged and destroyed Dash targets in Iraq and Syria since coalition Baiji city was cleared of Daesh last November but it fell to the murderous Moslem group early this year. |
| Posted by:Fred |