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| WHAT IS BUSH’S REAL GOAL IN IRAQ?
Posted: 12/18/2004 7:41:13 PM | WHAT IS BUSH’S REAL GOAL IN IRAQ?
By Paul Findley (who wrote the excellent 'They Dare to Speak Out' book about the power of the pro-Israel -AIPAC and similar- lobby in the USA) 12-14-04
Our most urgent challenge in Iraq is convincing the insurgents that we will pack and leave once a directly-elected government is installed. Distrust of U.S. intentions is the root cause of the bloody rebellion that seems to gain strength each month. Is the Bush Administration honest in stating that its objective is a stable, democratic Iraq? Or is that just a cover for permanent military bases that will enable the U.S. government to dominate Iraq far into the future.
Here are a few of the reasons why Iraqis distrust U.S. intentions:
> Headlines and newscasts are replete with forecasts by administration officials that U.S. troops will be needed in Iraq for years.
> “Neocons” in the Defense Department long ago urged an invasion of Iraq as a step toward U.S. control of the Middle East. Retired U.S. General Anthony Zinni, former chief of the U.S. Central Command, publicly stated recently that “everyone” in Washington knows that oil and Israel are the real reasons for the war.
> Beginning with the thunderous, devastating “shock and awe” opening round, U.S. military assaults have left over 100,000 Iraqi civilians dead, with other thousands wounded and/or homeless, and vast areas, including the great historic city of Fallujah, in ruins.
> No serious shakeup or reprimand in high places followed the disclosure of U.S. torture and humiliation of detainees.
> Administration officials handpicked the interim Iraqi government in its entirely. The prime minister, Ayad Allawi, resided for a long period in the United States, had close links with the CIA, and earlier was a close colleague of Saddam Hussein, once serving as the dictator’s hatchet man in Europe.
> At the end of the 1991 Gulf War, the U.S. government urged the Iraqis to overthrow Saddam. This prompted a strong uprising, but the U.S. government refused to provide support in any form. This refusal prompted Saddam to use helicopter gun-ships to slaughter dissidents by the hundreds.
> For a decade after the Gulf War, U.S. fighter planes enforced severe sanctions that led to immense civilian suffering, including the death of at least a half-million Iraqi infants.
> In the l980s--the height of Saddam’s cruel treatment of Kurds and other Iraqi citizens—the U.S. government served as the dictator’s silent, uncomplaining partner, helping him battle Iran.
> Before invading Iraq in 2003, the Bush administration ignored offers of conciliation from Saddam emissaries.
> President Bush has failed to make any moves to redress what is seen as America’s anti-Arab/Muslim bias. Bush talks of independence for Palestinians but continues to support without complaint Israel’s brutal treatment of them.
Distrust of the U.S. government is virulent throughout the Arab world and beyond, not just in Iraq, and our government does almost nothing to dispel it.
If the administration fails to establish credibility, the rebellion will intensify. The best first step is to convince the Iraqis quickly that we will leave the minute the new directly-elected government wants us out. President Bush must pledge, without qualification, that the timing and extent of our withdrawal will be controlled by Iraq.
To make this promise believable, Bush must state clearly that our government will withdraw all U.S. military forces and all U.S. contractors and dismantle all U.S. military bases within a few weeks after the new government takes office. The only exceptions should be military units or contractors the new Iraqi government may wish to remain. Such units will remain only as long as the new government wishes.
Our government must also promise unequivocally that once the new Iraqi government takes office, the U.S. diplomatic mission, now bursting with a staff of ominous size--more than 2,000 persons, the largest in recorded history--will quickly be reduced to a standard level.
Whatever his original motives, Bush must take prompt, rigorous steps to erase Iraqi fear of U.S. colonialism. Otherwise, his page in history will be bleaker than President Lyndon Johnson’s legacy from the Vietnam War.
In Iraq, trust--not military manpower--is the greatest and gravest shortage. More troops will inspire more insurgency, not less.
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Paul Findley, a Member of Congress 1961-83, writes and lectures on Middle East issues. His book, They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel’s Lobby, a 7-week bestseller on the Washington Post list, has sold over 300,000 copies | |
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| WHAT IS BUSH’S REAL GOAL IN IRAQ?
Posted: 12/18/2004 8:52:57 PM | BUSH'S REAL GOAL IN IRAQ,IS TO MAIM AND EXTERMINATE AMERICA'S YOUTH...
AND TO THAT END,HE IS DOING A REAL BANG UP JOB!!! | |
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| WHAT IS BUSH’S REAL GOAL IN IRAQ?
Posted: 12/18/2004 9:08:24 PM | Bush's real goal(s) in Iraq is(are) to:
1) Maintain a continuing military presence in the middle east for the purpose of controlling central Asian oil reserves.
2) build a pipeline connecting oilfields in Kazakhstan to the existing Iraqi oil pipeline which runs to the gulf. China is our biggest economic competitor and they already have a pipeline from Kazakhstan. It is estimated that by 2010 China will be consuming as much fossil fuel as the US.
3) Maintain control over oil coming out of Iraq and Kuwait.
4) Destroy any and all political movements in Central Asia which challenge US authority: including Iran.
My opinion: It's not so much Bush's goals that are so bad. The US needs oil. What is so stupid is:
1) Bush attacked Iraq with a military way to small to win the war and he lied to do it. Everyone knew he was lying and he didn't get the international cooperation he COULD have gotten before going in. It's possible he didn't even need to start a war to achieve these goals. It's just possible that he might have been able to overthrow Saddam from within.
Because he's done things the way he's done them, our military is falling apart in them middle east. Not just the soldiers who are being back drafted and sent back too many times, but also the equipment, which is breaking down because of overuse.
In addition to that, the insurgents over there have discovered ways to attack the US military that are becoming increasingly effective. Some sources estimate the recent attack on Fallujah cost the US 20% casualties... a STUNNING AMOUNT compared to the losses we were suffering when we first went in... and Fallujah's not even over yet... about a month after we attacked.
It's beginning to appear as if we can't win this war.
2) that we're not trying to conserve or wean ourselves off of complete dependancy on oil in our US markets. We could be shifting our energy usage to other sources, but Bush has almost completely cut funding for research into how to do that.
We're not developing mass public transportation systems in this country to help decrease our dependancy either.
3) the Bush administration, through it's bullying policies and treaty breaking as well as it's noncooperation with organizations founded by the US, like the UN and NATO, has lost it's role as leader of the free world. We now have a more adverserial relationship with the EU instead of being it's undisputed leader as we once were.
We've done things in a way that alienated all our friends and allies and now we're seen by the world as an international aggressor who will not cooperate with anyone or listen to reason... just like the hayseed neocons who rule american politics right now. | |
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| WHAT IS BUSH’S REAL GOAL IN IRAQ?
Posted: 12/18/2004 9:21:47 PM | Bush and his administration or any other president/administration in recent history is just one of many evil minions of Edomite/Jewish world power bent on total control and domination.
- - - The saga of Jacob and Esau continues . . . . as God said it would. | |
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| WHAT IS BUSH’S REAL GOAL IN IRAQ?
Posted: 12/19/2004 7:36:23 PM | | Elwood: We have done just that alienated ourselves from our friends and it isn't going to be long before they write us of. Americans are arrogant if we think for one moment that the rest of the world is going to continue to allow us to want our cake and eat it too. | |
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| WHAT IS BUSH’S REAL GOAL IN IRAQ?
Posted: 12/19/2004 7:59:53 PM | u people are really funny. the goal in iraq is exactly what has been stated by the pres over and over ...... the left is just deaf and more interested in putting words into the pres's mouth. the goal in the middle east is to begin transforming countries that self select their own government ..... because countries that have self selected governments do not export/support international terrorism.
i live in central america and just traveled through guatamala, salvador, honduras, nicaragua and live in costa rica. all those countries(except cr) were war torn fairly recently, and all are transformed today simply because they now elect their own leader ..... even dan ortega the sadino is now negotiating cafta ..lol. war or conflict was inevitable in the mid east, as more and more mid east nations select their own govts terror will dissapear ..... it is why the terrorists are so afraid of elections in iraq. try paying attention instead inserting your own silly notions and you hear the pres tell u exactly why the usa is involved. | |
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| WHAT IS BUSH’S REAL GOAL IN IRAQ?
Posted: 12/19/2004 8:29:03 PM | Lots of great points! I like Elvis! I think there is a lil hate in there as well. You know
Kill the mud people.
I just want all the answers NOW. LOL... | |
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| WHAT IS BUSH’S REAL GOAL IN IRAQ?
Posted: 12/20/2004 7:06:15 AM | attachedm: I certainly don't want to kill the "mud people" because I might BE one of the "mud people" the way the US is going right now. All the social and economic gains of the past century are a target for an administration like this; who works to concentrate all of the nation's wealth into the hands of a few.
They're taking away worker's rights, retirement funds, jobs, all forms of social safety nets and putting the nation in debt up to it's shoulders (70% of it's height.. is that the shoulders? That's certainly how big the debt is in relation to our Gross Domestic Product [value of all goods and services bought or sold in the US last year]). Wages are losing ground and the dollar itself is losing ground. Hope we're all not living in cardboard boxes soon... we who must depend upon laboring for others to earn our daily bread... | |
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| WHAT IS BUSH’S REAL GOAL IN IRAQ?
Posted: 12/20/2004 8:46:09 AM |
the left is just deaf and more interested in putting words into the pres's mouth
We don't need to put words in his mouth. The words he actually speaks are incriminating enough.
the goal in the middle east is to begin transforming countries that self select their own government
As long as the self-selected governments are hand-picked by the US government.
countries that have self selected governments do not export/support international terrorism
Really? This must have just started since last night.
i live in central america
According to your profile, you live in Oregon. | |
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| Listen to Elvis!
Posted: 12/20/2004 10:54:46 AM | I think we must remember MAMMA Earth. This oil fiasco is a sham.
We do not NEED
OIL as much as we think.
It is force fed in our diet because it lines our Southern Daddys
pockets.
I Live in Canada and we should just shut all the doors. We have so many resources
Water,Wood,Technology Green Ideals...Health Care. I wish we could shut the door, change to solar,tidal,wind H2 and show the freakin world, the world as we 'see' it is
a smoke and mirror profit show. A circus of hoarders and gluttens.
You know who was right? The Native Indians. Take what you need and do not waste...
Then we killed them.
Humans are stupid. | |
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| Listen to Elvis!
Posted: 12/20/2004 11:30:39 AM | Yeah, the Native Americans were a real civilization to look up to. Let's all strive to be so glorius as the great tribes that ran around in their underwear and hunted with arrows...totally cool/realistic.
The idiots didn't know any better.
They got what they deserved. They were wasting a valuable resource LAND. | |
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| Listen to Elvis!
Posted: 12/20/2004 11:46:30 AM | | nated*ck42~ I would appreciate it if you'd keep your racial,prejudicial slurs to yourself.If I didn't want to get booted from the forum, I'd light into your a** like your momma never did. *PUKE* | |
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| Meat head.
Posted: 12/20/2004 11:53:39 AM | When someone you love comes to you with ashma and you feel terrible there is nothing
You can do... remember how civilized we are as humans with all our polluting cars and oil/coal burning.
The only reason you think it is right to take and burn is because you have never really thought about it. We buy what they tell us to buy. Be a part of the solution my friend.
I just want to change you Nate. Why do you think there is no issue? Pollution,Global Warming, Peak oil???
Do you really believe what you say?
Go for a walk in a nice park and really think is this path the best for my kids kids. | |
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| WHAT IS BUSH’S REAL GOAL IN IRAQ?
Posted: 12/20/2004 1:19:08 PM | he says what he means, i do not find that incriminating
what govt in central america is hand picked? that is passe. politics of the past.
if u look at my yahoo profile you'll see i live the winters in costa rica, where i have just driven. i have a journal if u wanna see it. yahoo handle gcblues_coolazul
but keep promoting your wacko crap, people like you ensure more republican victories. i love u man! | |
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| WHAT IS BUSH’S REAL GOAL IN IRAQ?
Posted: 12/20/2004 9:49:19 PM |
he says what he means, i do not find that incriminating
-He said his number one priority was the capture of Bin Laden. Instead, he invaded Iraq.
-At one point, when he thought a microphone was turned off, he was heard saying something quite nasty about a reporter.
-When told once that Canadian Prime Minister Jean Poutine (who doesn't really exist) supported his campaign to become the President in 2000, he talked about how much respect he had for Poutine.
Shall I go on?
what govt in central america is hand picked? that is passe. politics of the past.
You weren't talking about Central America in your earlier post, you were talking about the Middle East.
if u look at my yahoo profile you'll see i live the winters in costa rica, where i have just driven. i have a journal if u wanna see it. yahoo handle gcblues_coolazul
I'm not really interested, thank you anyways. I just found it curious that the info in your profile didn't match the information in your posts.
but keep promoting your wacko crap, people like you ensure more republican victories. i love u man!
The truth is wacko crap? Then I'm one of the wackiest sufferers of diarhea you'll ever meet. | |
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| WHAT IS BUSH’S REAL GOAL IN IRAQ?
Posted: 12/20/2004 10:36:02 PM |
nothing u said was true its just disoriented loser crap.
Really?
My first example is a matter of public record. Look it up, if you aren't afraid to.
The one about the reporter can be verified here:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/bushcuss.asp
The one about Poutine can be verified here:
http://www.dewit.ca/archs/poutine/index.html
i posed Cent A as an example of how self selected govts evolve.
Bush has had little, if anything to do with self-selected governments in Central America. He does, however, have a direct hand in the upcoming 'self-selected' government in Iraq.
u'll have lots of time before anyone that thinks like u gets elected
You are quite right there. If I was ever to run for a high-ranking public office, I would be too honest, and would want to do what is best for the people. Therefore, someone like me would never be allowed a legitimate chance. | |
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| WHAT IS BUSH’S REAL GOAL IN IRAQ?
Posted: 12/21/2004 12:41:35 AM | Ok, this is easy, Bush's real goal in Iraq is, always has been, and always will be one thing. Oil. Simple. If it isnt, then why is it that the Iraqi ministry of Oil had a Florida National Guard Special Forces detail assigned solely to it within 30 minutes of the collapse of resistance in central Baghdad? And why is it STILL the 2nd most protected building in the green zone?
If the goal isnt oil then why is it that the Oil pipelines and refineries have literally hundreds if not thousands of South African, Angolan, Namibian and Zimbabwean "security contractors" keeping their ever watchful eye on the juice? Is it because Bechtel got a deal on them? I seriously doubt it. A professional soldier with experience in the SAS/SBS, former soldiers of the Angolese MPLA or FAPLA/Cuba, veterans of the North Korean trained ZANU militia, Former SWAPO militiamen, ex-ZAPU volunteers, former US SOCOM vets, Fijian and Samoan veterans, ex-Royal Marines, former Rhodesian Selous Scouts and ex-South Africa Defence Force Koevet(literally translated from Afrikaans it means "Crowbar") and even Malaysian troops are a hot commodity with the world security situation and the contracting companies charge for their services accordingly. Weird thing is that the Oil corps are more than willing to cough up the cash too. Seems like they're willing to put everything, including profits, on the line for the Oil. Expenditure like that is very odd behavior from any energy corporation, yet KBR, Halliburton, Bechtel and GE don't seem to mind the costs at all.
Also if Bush didnt only care about the Oil he wouldnt have assigned two additional fleets to the Persian Gulf in June 2003. You dont need that many battle groups and Aircraft carriers for supporting ground ops anymore, even with two full Marine divisions deployed amphibiously, and especially not for firing missiles, with boomers shooting cruise missiles from Trident tubes now as a full time job.
Its simple, Bush's goal, or whoever's pulling his strings goal, is to protect the oil and the flow of oil at all costs. Crushing the insurgency is a nice PR bonus, but its an inevitability, a grassroots insurgency without an effective means of countering the enemy will eventually be wiped out. In Afghanistan it didnt happen cuz the CIA gave the Mujahadeen AIM-94 stingers, the Soviets relied on their helicopters and it cost them, all the while the Mujahadeen were getting the Soviet Army hooked on heroin, which destroyed their will to fight. In Iraq, the insurgency doesnt have an effective means of shutting the US Military down, they're doomed. Just so long as we can do the nastyness away from the pipelines and refineries, everybody's a happy camper, the war'll be over in a year or two and the republicans will have two new puppet governments in the Middle East and South Asia to continue on with their agenda. | |
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| WHAT IS BUSH’S REAL GOAL IN IRAQ?
Posted: 12/21/2004 1:46:25 PM | NZ: have you looked at the newspaper in the last 3 days?
I strongly disagree with your assessment that it's working and will be over in one or two years.
Hope you're right, but there's too much contrary info we're seeing... This is a bigger fight than anyone thought it would be and we're not prepared... never were.
I think it's going to be a long and painful failure. | |
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| WHAT IS BUSH’S REAL GOAL IN IRAQ?
Posted: 12/21/2004 2:15:12 PM | | Iraq wants democratic freedoms but without having a walmart on every corner. Bush is going in there to peddle american toys that Iraqi extremists see as an infrigement to free will. Oil is just a small part of it. | |
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| WHAT IS BUSH’S REAL GOAL IN IRAQ?
Posted: 12/21/2004 2:29:30 PM | I agree that we weren't prepared. I dont know nor see the strategic value of the targets the insurgents are picking and without a sound strategy to defeat the other one, it'll be this tit-for-tat crap that we've been seeing in the wake of Falluja, a bombing here, a mortar attack there, mostly targeting the Iraqi security forces, they're so weak its a non-issue and a waste of time and ammo to attack them. They also attack civilians alot which isnt too bright, why would you want to attack and harrass a possible broad base of support? Alot of stuff they do makes zero sense, and quite a few analyists have admitted that they dont really know why.
Like the mess hall in Mosul today, what's the strategic value of targeting a mess hall? Yeah thats gonna shake up the base there, but it'll probably just piss the soldiers off worse, when they could blow up our communications buildings or ammo dumps and do some actual damage that might throw the unit off balance like what the Viet Cong used to do, but they dont choose to.
And I never said our strategy was working overall either, and its going to get worse before it gets better, but the was isnt unwinnable yet, if the insurgents form a united front and start going after real targets with a high value, we're screwed.
It certainly is a bigger fight than anyone expected and thats the root of the problem right there. Anyone who was expecting this to be a clean, merry little war was outta their minds. | |
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| WHAT IS BUSH’S REAL GOAL IN IRAQ?
Posted: 12/21/2004 7:35:24 PM |
1) Maintain a continuing military presence
Only this part is correct seems people are afraid of democracy out break in the middle east these days.
2) build a pipeline
Please recheck your facts China already is the worlds largest importer of oil that's what fluctuates our dollar over there, research people research. Personal opinions everyone has them doesn't make them right.
3) Maintain control over oil coming out of Iraq and Kuwait.
Guess we are in the wrong country for control. Im thinkin we should have taken control of Saudi for control of oil theory.
4) Destroy any and all political movements in Central Asia which challenge US authority
OH NO! imagine free societies in the mid-east after centuries of fighting. Peace? OMG NO!
The only International support your referring to is German, Russian, China and France. You need to look into what kind of deals they had with Iraq and see what their motive was. But then again if the media doesn't report it, it must not be important.
Other than that even 3rd world little countries sent and still send troops there. But since they don't have world power they don't count in the UN?
The military isn't falling apart its the bickering over here that pulls it apart. As for the equipment blame the democrats military cuts over 8 yrs. All our equipment predates Bushs term. But then again you wont go for more money for equipment will you? Nope easier to blame Bush.
Losses over there the best they have ever been in any war the US has fought in. Please don't try the Vietnam theory it disgraces the good people who actually fought that one.
2) that we're not trying to conserve or wean ourselves off of complete dependency on oil in our US markets. We could be shifting our energy usage to other sources, but Bush has almost completely cut funding for research into how to do that.
I really like this one. Living in the Detroit area (ya know where the cars come from) that's big talk even on the media about how Research is being pushed for alternatives, and yes even corn oil is making a come back.
As for being the world leader in EU, I dont think we want the responsibility then we would have to have a commonwealth territory over there like France or Britain does. Leave the EU leading to them. | |
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| WHAT IS BUSH’S REAL GOAL IN IRAQ?
Posted: 12/21/2004 7:37:45 PM | Bush and his administration asked the secretary of the Army (White) and the highest ranking Army general (Shinseki) how many troops would be needed to hold Iraq before they invaded. They said 560,000....
The bush administration totally ignored them. We have 150,000 over there right now... and ever since they invaded they're running from one place to another trying to put out fires. Some soldiers are having to spend 2 or 3 tours of duty. they're having to use the "stop loss" program because not enough new soldiers are enlisting and half the "stop lossers" are bugging out.. not showing up.
The casualties in Iraq are getting higher all the time.
My opinion: we should find a way to get out asap before the whole US military is ruined or all the soldiers are lost. If we need international help to do this GET IT. | |
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| WHAT IS BUSH’S REAL GOAL IN IRAQ?
Posted: 12/21/2004 8:26:17 PM | 2) build a pipeline
Please recheck your facts China already is the worlds largest importer of oil that's what fluctuates our dollar over there, research people research. Personal opinions everyone has them doesn't make them right.
*Casper: here's a history of attacks on the Irai Pipeline from:
http://www.iags.org/iraqpipelinewatch.htm
Iraq Pipeline Watch
Attacks on Iraqi pipelines, oil installations, and oil personnel:
2003
1. June 12 — attack along the 600 mile (960 km) pipeline that carries crude oil from Iraq's northern fields near Kirkuk to Turkey's port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean Sea
2. June 19 — explosion in Bayji refinery complex about 125 miles (200 km) north of Baghdad
3. June 22 — explosion in natural gas line near Hit, a city about 95 miles (152 km) northwest of Baghdad
4. June 23 - gas pipeline explosion outside the town of Abidiyah Gaarbiga, near the Syrian border in western Iraq
5. June 24 — explosion near Barwanah pipeline carries crude to al-Dawrah refinery in Baghdad
6. June 26 — explosion near Al-Fatha near the River Tigris on pipeline carrying oil to the Bayji refinery
7. July 29 — attack on pipeline near Basra
8. July 31 - saboteurs blew up part of a pipeline near Bayji
9. August 1 - two rocket propelled grenades fired at exposed and leaking valve in an oil pipeline running west of Karbala sparked a blaze.
10. August 1 - explosion on oil pipeline running from Kirkuk to Bayji.
11. August 12 — attack near al-Taji near Baghdad
12. August 15 - explosion near Bayji
13. August 16 - explosion near Bayji
14. September 8 — attack on pipeline from the Jabour oil field 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Kirkuk to the main pipeline that originates there
15. September 18 - attack on pipeline from Kirkuk to Ceyhan
16. October 11 - attack on pipeline from Zab to Kirkuk
17. October 16 - pipeline explosion near the city of Hadeetha, 125 miles (200 km) northwest of Baghdad
18. October 23 - explosion near natural gas pipeline 30 miles (48 km) south of Mosul
19. October 23 - bombing attack on an oil pipeline 150 miles (240 km) north of Baghdad
20. November 1 - explosion at oil pipeline about 9 miles (15 km) north of Tikrit
21. November 4 - explosion at a pipeline plant in Zumar, 38 miles (60 km) northwest of Mosul
22. November 10 - Mohammed al-Zibari, distribution manager for the Oil Distribution Company was shot and wounded in the northern city of Mosul in what seems to be the first assassination attempt on officials from an Iraqi oil firm. Zibari's son was killed in the attack. Zibari told Reuters, "Three people opened fire with AK-47s. My driver saw them and so did my bodyguard," adding "Definitely foreign regime loyalists are responsible for this. I have no personal enemies, no tribal or family problems, and I'm not a member of any political party."
23. November 17 - blast 1.2 miles (2 km) east of the Bayji refinery, at a pipeline taking fuel oil to the Daura refinery, in the southern suburb of Baghdad. Resulting damage on the power supply line to the 300,000 barrels per day Bayji refinery, located 156 miles (250 km) north of Baghdad, forced a 2 day electricity shutdown.
24. November 18 - explosion on oil pipeline in the region of Mashruh al-Therthar, south-west of the city of Samarra. The feeds the Daura refineries in Baghdad.
25. November 22 - Abdel Salam Qanbar, an Iraqi police colonel in charge of security for oil installations in the northern city of Mosul was shot and killed by unknown attackers in a vehicle.
26. November 22 - club inside the Iraqi Northern Oil Company compound in Kirkuk, 150 miles (240 km) north of Baghdad, was hit during the night by mortar shells wounding three foreign nationals.
27. November 23 - blast on a pipeline transporting gas from the Jambur oil field to the Bayji refinery caused fire so huge its glow at night is visible from Kirkuk, 19 miles (30 km) north of Jambur.
28. November 26 - oil pipeline linking oilfields in northern Iraq to the Bayji refinery on fire near the village of Sharqat, about 30 miles (48 km) north of Bayji.
29. December 9 - explosion on a gas pipeline that runs from Kirkuk to a bottled gas factory north of Baghdad.
30. December 10 - explosion at point 84 miles (135 km) west of Kirkuk on oil pipeline linking the Bayji and Daura refineries.
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31. December 19 - blaze on a pipeline south of Baghdad causing significant leakage.
32. December 20 - rocket-propelled grenades hit storage tanks in southern Baghdad on Saturday; resulting fires burned about 2.6 million gallons of gasoline.
33. December 20 - rocket-propelled grenades cause pipeline explosion in the al-Mashahda area 15 miles (24 km) north of Baghdad.
34. December 21 - explosion on pipeline in the al-Mashahda region, 30 miles (50 km) north Baghdad.
35. December 21 - pumping station near Bayji refinery attacked with mortars.
36. December 22 - explosion at 3:30 pm (1230 GMT) in Riad about 28 miles (45 km) west of Kirkuk, on fuel pipeline between Kirkuk's oilfields and Iraq's biggest refinery in Bayji, parallel to the crucial pipeline between Kirkuk and the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan.
37. December 22 - fire on pipeline supplying Bayji refinery with crude from the oil fields of Kirkuk at point about 30 miles (50 km) northeast of refinery.
2004
38. January 7 - explosion holes pipeline connecting oil fields to a pumping station in the area around Hassiba, 85 miles (135 km) west of Kirkuk, Northern Oil Company director general Adel Kazzaz said "The fuel line was used for domestic market needs and filling up tankers that export crude."
39. January 30 - explosion on pipeline carrying crude oil from Kirkuk to Bayji refinery.
40. February 22 - explosion and fire on the Kirkuk-Baghdad-Basra pipeline near Al-Hare, a small town west of Karbala, about 70 miles (110 km) south of Baghdad. This is reported to be the first attack against a pipeline in southern Iraq since the ousting of Saddam Hussein.
41. February 26 - explosion apparently caused by homemade bomb thrown under oil and gas pipes damaged part of an oil pipeline about 60 miles (96 km) north of Baghdad.
42. March 2 - large explosion on oil pipeline near the northern city of Kirkuk causing a huge fire but no casualties. The blast hit the main oil line leading to the Bayji refinery 125 miles (200 km) north of Baghdad igniting a huge fire police chief Turhan Yussef said. "The explosion happened at 11.15am (0615 AEDT). An explosive device was placed under the pipeline at Al-Riad, 21 miles (35 km) west of Kirkuk," he said.
43. March 10 - fire on an oil pipeline south of Baghdad, leading from southern fields to the Daura refinery outside Baghdad. Firefighter Saleh Jabbar said it appeared to be the result of sabotage.
44. March 12 - oil pipeline blown up west of Tikrit on Friday, resulting in a fire on the line. The pipeline links northern oil fields in Kirkuk with the Daura refinery on the edge of Baghdad.
45. March 24 - Northern Oil Company oil well in the Khabaz area, about 55 miles (88 km) west of Kirkuk, was bombed at night. The resulting fire was extinguished late the following day. Gen. Mohammed Amin, the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps chief in Kirkuk said the well was not being tapped at the time of the blast nor was it closely guarded. "This is a terrorist act. This is the first time an oil well has come under attack in Kirkuk." Amin said.
46. March 25 - blast on a main oil well in northern Iraq that feeds exports through Turkey. Adel Qazzaz, director-general of the Northern Iraqi Company (NOC) said, "The explosion occurred at 3:30 pm (1230 GMT) because of an explosive charge planted by unknown individuals inside the well, located 47 miles (75 km) west of Kirkuk." He added, "It inflicted massive damage in the well, and firefighters are having a hard time extinguishing it because the explosion occurred inside the well and not in the pipelines." Qazzaz said firemen would need two days to put out the fire, and noted "the well is a principal producer for oil exports through the Iraqi-Turkish pipeline and for covering local market demands."
47. March 26 - pipeline in the southern Basra oil facilities on fire, said an official from Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization. Iraqi guards on duty at Shuaiba, near the southern city of Basra, said saboteurs ignited crude oil that leaked from the pipeline. A British military spokesman disagreed with the report, saying "It was not the result of an explosion. We understand that a pipeline valve failed and fire broke out from the resultant spillage."
48. April 4 - attack on oil pipeline in southern Iraq which links Basra with Faw port on the Persian Gulf. ruptured it and set the oil ablaze.
49. April 8 - mortar round hit natural gas tank and another hit a pipeline at a plant north of Kirkuk operated by the Northern Iraqi Company (NOC) Jumaa Ahmad, head of the fire fighting brigade, said.
50. April 21 - bombing on pipeline north of Baghdad.
51. April 24 - suicide bombers in three boats blew themselves up in and around the Basra terminal zone, one of the most heavily guarded facilities of its kind in the world.
52. May 8 - bomb 35 miles (56 km) south of Basra damaged an 18-foot section of one of two pipelines running from Basra to the Faw peninsula on the Gulf. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Spokesman Steve Wright said oil exports from the Basra and Khor al-Amaya offshore southern terminals, through which about 90% of Iraq's oil exports flow, were stopped as a result: "Pumping has stopped. They attacked in the vicinity where the manifold goes into the sea." According to Iraqi officials exports were still flowing from Basra albeit at a reduced rate of 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd) compared with 1.6 million bpd prior to the attack as oil from the damaged pipeline is flowing through the parallel pipeline. Ali Nasr al-Rubaie, director of the main port terminal said exports had been halved following the attack: "We have dropped from an average of 80,000 barrels per hour to 40,000 barrels per hour."
53. May 8 - attack on oil pipeline taking crude northwards from the country’s southern oilfields at point 25 miles (40 km) south of Baghdad, oil ministry spokesman Assem Jihad said on Saturday, noting it would take several days to start pumping oil again.
54. May 9 - blast near a strategic oil pipeline network linking north and south Iraq, by the town of Musayyib, about 56 miles (90 km) south of Baghdad. Unclear what caused the explosion or whether the pipeline itself was damaged.
55. May 13 - rocket landed in a gas plant at the Daura oil refinery in Baghdad, injured a worker and caused a fire.
56. May 24 - explosion badly damaged the Northern pipeline at around 7pm local time on a section between the Kirkuk oilfields and the Dibis pumping installations. A security official of Iraq's Northern Oil Company, Juma Ahmad, said pumping had to be stopped to fight the fire. Another security official for Northern Oil, Issam Muhammad, said while the fire had been put out it would take 12 days to repair the damage.
57. May 26 - explosion on Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline near Kirkuk.
58. May 26 - explosion on southern pipeline through which oil flows to the Persian Gulf.
59. June 6 - attack on Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline. Iraq's Northern Oil Company (NOC) chief Ghazi Talabani said "Assailants detonated sound grenades on the pipeline Sunday at dawn (local time), 120 km (75 miles) east of Kirkuk, causing damage, and a loss of a huge quantity of oil." He said "The oil loss has been stopped and a group of technical experts are repairing the pipeline and the damage could be repaired by Tuesday night. Restarting production depends on the decision of the coalition and the oil ministry." NOC project manager Abdullah al-Rubai had earlier denied the attack.
60. June 6 - explosion on oil pipeline that feeds the Basra terminal near Basra on the Faw Peninsula's southern end. The blast slowed oil flow from 80,000 barrels per hour to 40,000.
61. June 9 - blast on oil pipeline near Bayji 155 miles (250 km) north of Baghdad cut supplies to the Bayji electric power station and according to Iraq Oil Ministry spokesman Assem Jihad forced a reduction of 400 megawatts, amounting to a 10% output cut on the national power grid.
62. June 9 - blast on Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline. Anwar Hamed Amin, chief of Iraqi Civil Defence Corps, said "A bomb placed 80 km (50 miles) west of Kirkuk exploded at 8:20am [local time] on the main pipeline to the Ceyhan terminal."
63. June 15 - Explosion in the morning on a pipeline through which oil flows from the Zubeir 1 pumping station to a depot in Faw, 40 miles southeast of Basra.
64. June 15 - Another explosion, during the evening, on a southern pipeline. Together with the attack on the pipeline to Basra, the attack on this 48-inch pipeline through which oil flows to Khor al-Amaya port cut oil exports from the south by over half according to the Iraqi Southern Oil Company.
65. June 15 - ``An oil pipeline connecting the fields in Kirkuk and a processing station in Bajwan, 20 km (12 miles) north of the city, was sabotaged and a fire broke out,'' said Adel Kazaz, a North Oil Company director. The pipeline supplied oil to domestic refineries.
66. June 16 - 42-inch Pipeline to Basra terminal, the key terminal from which most of Iraq's 1.6 million bpd of Basra Light were exported, attacked again. Iraqi Southern Oil Company's spokesman said: "Due to the damage inflicted on the two pipelines, the pumping of oil to the Basra oil terminal has completely stopped," adding that southern exports have "come to halt." A Iraqi oil official reported "There are no exports from Basra oil terminal or Khor al-Amaya and it is unclear when they will restart," adding, "Both pipelines feeding the terminals have been destroyed."
67. June 16 - Chief of security for Iraq's Northern Oil Company, Ghazi Talabani, 70, was shot and killed in Kirkuk as he was being driven to work. His driver was badly wounded. The assassins escaped.
68. June 21 - blast on pipeline transporting crude oil from the northern town of Bayji to Daura refinery at point near al-Mashahidah, 20 miles (32 km) north of Baghdad. The explosion interrupted supplies to the refinery, that provides the domestic Iraqi market with gasoline, kerosene and liquefied petroleum gas.
69. June 26 - explosion near Latifiyah, about 30 miles (48 km) south of Baghdad, on small pipeline that feeds crude oil to storage tanks in Latifiyah.
70. June 29 - another blast on pipeline near Latifiyah.
71. July 3 - Fire in Al-Maqalai, southeast of the Az-Zubayr oil fields, on one of the two pipelines that feed the southern terminals resulted in a drop by half of Iraqi oil exports to 960,000 barrels per day. Exports in the South fell from 84,000 barrels per hour to 40,000. While one Iraqi oil official said, "Fire is raging in the 42-inch pipeline on the Faw Peninsula. It was sabotage," an official from the Southern Iraqi Oil Company said "News that one of the key oil export pipeline in the Faw peninsula was attacked by saboteurs are baseless."
72. July 3 - bomb blast during changing of the guard at an oil storage facility south of Baghdad in Al Latifiyah killed six Iraqi National Guard soldiers and wounded five more.
73. July 4 - attack on pipeline that carries oil from the northern oil fields to the south at point near Musayyib, about 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Baghdad.
74. July 6 - blast on gas pipeline that feeds multiple power plants in the center and north of Iraq and a gas canister factory in Taji, north of Baghdad, that provides gas for many homes. Head of the Northern Gas Company, Huner Hassan, said "A device exploded along the pipeline about 90 km (56 miles) south of Kirkuk, sparking a fire." He noted "This is going to affect electricity production for the country and the production of gas for domestic use."
75. July 10 - explosion at approximately 6:30am local time about 55 miles (88 km) west of Kirkuk in the Safra area on a gas pipeline that runs from the gas fields in Kirkuk to a power station in Bayji sparked a fire on, according to the Northern Gas Co. head of security, Ahmed al-Hassan, less than a meter of the pipeline.
76. July 14 - Northern Oil Company police officer was shot to death while manning a checkpoint near a pipeline in Riyad, approximately 80 km southwest of Kirkuk.
77. July 15 - explosion on pipeline running from the northern oil fields to the Beiji refinery.
78. July 15 - holes were drilled on a major southern pipeline that runs to offshore export terminals. The damage occured in the al-Askari district, 20 km south-west of Basra, according to head of the Iraqi Border Police, Staff Brigadier General Ali al-Mousawi. It appears this may be the work of looters.
79. July 15 - explosion near Fatha, some 55 miles (90 km) west Kirkuk, at about 8:40 a.m. (0440 GMT) on oil pipeline that runs from the major oil fields in Kirkuk and the Turkish port Ceyhan. The resulting fire has been extinguished and repairs on the pipeline are expected to begin July 17.
80. July 16 - attempted mortar attack on northern oil pipeline that runs from Kirkuk to Ceyhan failed. According to a security official at the Northern Oil Company, Ahmad Hassan Afif, "A mortar round was thrown at about 8:10 am (0410 GMT) on the pipeline near to Riad, 35 kilometres west of Kirkuk, causing a fire in a pool of oil created by leaks, but failing to cause any other damage."
81. July 17 - attempt to blow up natural gas pipeline failed as saboteur's bomb exploded prematurely, killing him but not damaging the pipeline.
82. July 19 - explosion on oil pipeline that runs through al-Debis region northwest of Kirkuk, supplying oil for domestic use in refineries and power plants.
83-84. July 23 - two blasts on 125 mile (200 km) long oil pipeline that runs from al-Daura refinery in Baghdad to Beiji, at point about 12 miles (20 km) south of Samarra.
85. July 24 - explosion southwest of the town of Samarra, 60 miles (100 km) north of Baghdad, sparked a fire on pipeline that carries oil from Beiji refinery to Baghdad.
86. July 24 - blast in the vicinity of Tharthar Lake, 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Kirkuk, on oil pipeline that runs from the oil fields around Kirkuk to Al-Dura power station, south of Baghdad.
87. July 28 - premature explodulation killed two saboteurs who tried to place a bomb on an oil pipeline near Kirkuk. The pipeline was not damaged.
88. August 3 - explosion about 75 miles (120 km) west of Kirkuk at Al-Fateha on critical pipeline juncture caused a huge fire and road closure between the Beiji refineries and Kirkuk and halted exports through the northern pipeline to Ceyhan.
89. August 5 - bomb on oil pipeline in Kirkuk area found by Northern Oil Company security personnel exploded as Task Force Danger troops were investigating it. No injuries.
90. August 5 - blast on the Kirkuk to Ceyhan oil pipeline sparked a fire that was swiftly contained since oil flow was halted on the pipeline as a result of the Aug. 3 attack.
91. August 5 - attack sparked fire on gas pipeline that feeds both the Bayji power station and a propane factory in Taji 12 miles (20 km) north of Baghdad. Northern Oil Company's gas division director, Honer Najib, said "Firefighters are trying to contain the blaze but the sabotage is going to effect the production of electricity in Iraq."
92. August 9 - attack halted oil flow on the major pipeline that feeds the southern terminals, reducing exports from 1.9 mbd to the about 1 mbd, fed through the smaller 42-inch pipeline.
93. August 14 - attack on domestic oil pipeline near the town of Mussayyib south of Baghdad sparked fire, and has caused shortages in the domestic supply of gasoline.
94. August 15 - rocket-propelled grenades were fired on an oil well 25 miles (40 km) east of the southern town of Amarah setting it ablaze.
95. August 18 - Northern Iraqi oil company security officer was killed and 2 others wounded 6 miles (10 km) from Kirkuk.
96. August 19 - attackers inflitrated the Basra headquarters of the Iraqi Southern Oil Company setting a fire that obliterated warehouses containing drilling equipment, among other items, spread to the firm's offices, and cut electricity. "They came in droves, surrounded the building and looted it before setting it on fire," said a company official. Firefighters arriving at the compound were shot at and fled.
97. August 20 - attack apparently perpetuated by al-Sadr loyalists sparked fire on pipeline through which oil flows from the Bezergan oil field in the south to a refinery in Amarah, 180 miles (290 km) southeast of Baghdad.
98. August 20 - explosion at 8:30am on domestic pipeline through which oil flows from Kirkuk to Baiji refinery at point 19 miles (30 km) west of Kirkuk.
99. August 21 - blast near pipeline valve at Berjisiya, 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Basra, sparks fire on oil pipeline connecting the Rumeila oilfields with export storage tanks in the Faw peninsula. Another bomb was found nearby and defused. The pipeline was shut for a week due to sabotage threats. Lt. Mohammed al-Mousawi of the Iraqi National Guard explained "The aim behind attack is to damage the pipeline in case it is turned on again."
100. August 25 - attack on the reversible Strategic Pipeline linking oil fields in the north and south of Iraq sparked fire 19 miles (30 km) west of Babylon.
101. August 25 - explosion at 7:00 am near Al Madhatiya in Aawazel area, about 18 miles (30 km) south of Hilla, on gas pipeline which transports gas from Basra to other southern towns set the pipeline ablaze.
102. August 25 - eight parallel pipelines that link the Rumaila oilfields to the Zubayr 1 pumping station were hit in Berjasiya, 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Basra, when a bomb exploded under a bridge at 9:00pm and caused it to collapse, reducing exports from the south.
103. August 27 - attack on the 36 inch in diameter oil pipeline that connects the South Rumaila oilfield to storage tanks at the Zubayr 1 station near Basra.
104. August 27 - attack on the 48 inch oil pipeline that connects the North Rumaila field to storage tanks in the West Qorna oilfield.
105. August 27 - blast on oil pipeline that feeds the Daura refinery; section on fire 19 miles (30 km) north of Baghdad.
106. August 27 - attack on oil pipeline in the West Qurna oilfield, 90 miles (144 km) north of Basra.
107. August 29 - blast on oil pipeline that links the Rumaila oilfields with export storage tanks in the Faw peninsula in al-Radgha, 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Basra.
108. August 30 - blast on internal oil pipeline in the southeast New Baghdad district.
109. September 1 - explosion on Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline on section between Kirkuk and Bayji at 6:30 pm near Riyadah 30 miles (50 km) south of Kirkuk sparked a huge fire halting exports on the line.
110. September 4 - blast on 14-inch line carrying crude from the Al-Khabaz field to the Bayji refinery.
111-112. September 4 - attack at 8:30am at Hartha, 19 miles (33 km) north of Basra, on southern pipeline that supplies oil to the Hartha electrical plant. Simultaneous attack on parallel pipeline that pumps 15,000 barrels of crude oil a day from oil fields near Nahr Omar to the storage tanks at Zubayr 1.
113. September 6 - attack at point 12 miles (20 km) south of Kirkuk on natural gas pipeline connecting the Janbur fields to the Bayji power plant, which produces 400 megawatts a day and provides electricity to northern Iraq, sparked fire.
114. September 6 - at 9:30am, a day after the fire on the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline was extinguished, attackers set fire to the leaking oil and re-ignited it.
115. September 11 - at 3:15pm attackers damaged the 14 inch oil pipeline that links a Kirkuk oilfield to the Havana refinery located 37 miles (60 km) from Kirkuk with fire from automatic weapons.
116. September 11 - gunfire attack at 3:30am near Hatin, 18 miles (30 km) north of Kirkuk, injured three Northern Oil Company security guards, one of them seriously.
117. September 12 - gunfire attack at 1am 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Kirkuk on security forces guarding the Dibis oil fields wounded three of them.
118. September 12 - driveby gunfire injured two security officers on patrol near the Jambouz oilfields 30 miles (42 km) west of Kirkuk.
119. September 13 - attack on oil pipeline in the Rumaila oilfield.
120. September 14 - 2am blast on junction where pipelines cross the Tigris River, at point near the 676-MW Beiji power plant set ablaze three oil pipelines, stopping the flow of oil from the Kirkuk oilfields to Beiji refinery and to Ceyhan. The heat melted a 400-KV transmission line that ran almost 300 ft above the area, causing a power loss of 750 MW within a second, which caused the country's 5,000 MW grid to short circuit stopping electricity supply to all of Iraq. Just two days prior Northern Oil Company engineers finished replacing critical valves destroyed by an earlier attack.
121. September 16 - attack on oil pipeline near Baqouba that runs from the Khanaqin oilfields to the Al Daura refinery.
122. September 18 - attempt to assassinate director of oil products for the Northern Oil Company, Muhammad Zibari, by attackers with machine guns and grenades who ambushed his convoy in Mosul missed him but resulted in the death of eight people and injury of four.
123. September 23 - assassins shot and killed the deputy director of the Northern Oil Company's oil product department, Sana Toma Sulaiman, riding in a taxi in Mosul on his way to work.
124. September 23 - explosion on oil pipeline near al-Fahhama village, 15 miles (25 km) north of Baghdad, causing extensive damage.
125. September 23 - saboteurs blew up part of the East Baghdad oil field. The well, capacity 5,000 barrels a day, supplies refineries in nearby Taji and Baghdad's Daura refinery.
126. September 23 - blast on oil pipeline at Angour, 50 miles (80 km) east of Fallujah.
127. September 23 - explosion on oil pipeline in Najaf stopped flow from oil fields near the city to a refinery in Basra.
128. September 24 - private pipeline security company found explosive device along a major oil pipeline west of Balad. Oil flow remained uninterrupted.
129. October 3 - saboteurs blew up a section of the pipeline near the city of Karbala in central Iraq.
129. October 5 - rocket fired at the Oil Ministry in Baghdad.
130. October 5 - blast on oil pipeline west of Baghdad.
131. October 18 - blast on oil pipeline 8 miles (12 km) from Bayji.
132. October 19 - blast on oil pipeline 6 miles (10 km) north of the Bayji refinery.
133. October 19 - explosion at 2:10pm on oil pipeline 87 miles (140 km) south of Kirkuk.
134. October 21 - saboteurs hit a section of the northern oil export network.
135. October 22 - blast in the Mashahdeh area, some 30 miles (48 km) north of Baghdad, on an oil pipeline that feeds the Daura refinery.
136. October 23 - blast on the Khana oil pipeline northeast of Baghdad sparked fire which damaged 150 meters of the pipeline. Another bomb was found along the same line and safely defused.
137. October 25 - saboteurs blew up a section of a pipeline about 15 miles (25 km) southwest of Kirkuk feeding the Bayji refinery. A fire later broke out in another pipeline and witnesses said it was caused by a blast.
138. October 29 - explosion at about 6:00am on oil pipeline near the Havice district of Kirkuk.
139. November 1 - explosion on Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline in Riyad, southwest of Kirkuk.
140. November 1 - attack on a oil pipeline that feeds the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline and is connected to the Bai Hassan oilfield in Qoshqaya.
141-142. November 2 - two bombs exploded against oil pipeline connecting oil fields in Kirkuk to the refinery in Bayji, one at 10am, 44 miles (70 km) southwest of Kirkuk.
143. November 2 - blast on refined products pipeline in Hatin north of Kirkuk.
144. November 2 - attack at 7:20pm near Sheikh Mizher al-As on a pipeline network connecting the Khubbaz oil wells, 24 miles (40 km) west of Kirkuk with refineries in Bayji and Baghdad.
145. November 3 - assassins shot to death the director general of the Iraqi oil ministry's oil byproducts distribution company, Hussein Ali al-Fattal, as he left his home in the Yarmouk area of Baghdad to go to work.
146. November 5 - explosion damaged a gas pipeline which connects the Baba Gurgur fields near Kirkuk with the Northern Gas Company.
147. November 9 - explosion on oil pipeline near the Safa, 44 miles (70 km) southwest of Kirkuk.
148. November 10 - attack on gas pipeline connecting the Khubbaz fields to the Northern Gas Company.
149. November 13 - attack at Taji, 12 miles (19km) north of Baghdad on oil pipeline that runs to the Daura refinery in Baghdad.
150-153. November 14 - four oil wells set afire in the Khubbaz oilfield west of Kirkuk. The wells had been pumping 10-15,000 bpd of oil a piece.
154. November 15 - blast on oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Ceyhan in Safra 37 miles (50 km) west of Kirkuk.
155. November 15 - gunmen set ablaze a storage depot and pumping station along the oil pipeline to Ceyhan near Ain al Jahish, 60 miles (96 km) south of Mosul.
156. November 15 - explosion at 11pm near Sarai, 47 miles (75 km) west of Kirkuk, on oil pipeline that feeds the Bayji refinery.
157. November 15 - explosion at 11pm near Riyadh, 25 miles (40 km) west of Kirkuk, on gas pipeline that feeds the power station in Bayji.
158. November 17 - blast at 1am on oil pipeline from the Bai Hassan field, 30 miles (42 km) west of Kirkuk, to storage facilities in Dibis, 20 miles (32 km) west of Kirkuk.
159. November 17 - bomb on oil well in Barajwan, 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Kirkuk.
160. November 17 - blast at 8am 2.5 miles (4 km) west of Samarrah on pipeline from Bayji to the Daura refinery in Baghdad.
161. November 21 - an oil well was set afire in the Khubbaz oilfield.
162. November 21 - sabotage attempt on a well in the Khubbaz oilfield thwarted by Iraqi security guards. One would-be saboteur was killed and another wounded.
163. November 22 - blast at 9am on the 42 inch pipeline to Basra terminal stopped flow of oil through the pipeline.
164. November 25 - attack on two oil wells near the Himreen Mountains, 75 miles (120 km) south of Kirkuk.
165. November 25 - an early morning explosion in the Fatha area, 9 miles (15 km) north of Bayji, on the oil pipeline that runs from Kirkuk to Bayji. A 2,000 person Iraqi security force was assigned to guard oil infrastructure two days prior.
166-167. November 29 - two blasts, one at 8:40 am and the other at 8:50am, on the oil pipeline that runs from Bayji to Daura refinery.
168. November 30 - blast on the oil pipeline that connects Daura refinery and the Musayyib power station south of Baghdad, cutting power to the Babil area.
169. December 1 - gunmen opened fire on a pipeline repair team working in the Safrah area, 50 miles (80km) southwest of Kirkuk. One man was injured.
170. December 6 - attack 10 miles (16 km) south of Samarra on oil pipeline that runs from Bayji to Daura refinery.
171. December 6 - attack on a pipeline that runs inside an underground oil storage tank 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Kirkuk.
172. December 7 - attack on pipeline supplying oil from northern Iraq to Baghdad.
173. December 10 - late night attack on the 48 inch oil export pipeline in the Riyad area southwest of Kirkuk.
174. December 11 - ten armed men kidnapped the Northern Oil Company's head of security for the Bayji region while he was in the Samarra area examining damage to a pipeline that had been attacked.
175. December 13 - arsonists set on fire oil, which had leaked and pooled due to prior pipeline attacks, 43 miles (27 km) southwest of Kirkuk, raising concern that the blaze could damage nearby pipelines.
176. December 17 - attack on pipeline supplying oil from Basra to Baghdad's Daura refinery, halted the flow of refined products which, oil ministry spokesman Jihad Assem said, had just resumed following a 17 day stoppage after the previous sabotage.
177. December 17 - attack on pipeline supplying refined products from Bayji refinery to Baghdad. A statement circulated in Bayji said that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had blown up a pipeline, following orders from ''supreme commander Osama bin Laden''.
178. December 17 - attack on the northern pipeline near Fatha, 53 miles (85 km) west of Kirkuk.
179. December 18 - 7:30am attack on pipeline supplying oil from Kirkuk to the IT-1A storage tanks near Bayji.
180. December 18 - 8.30am blast on oil pipeline between Bayji and Daura refinery at Dilja, 12 miles (20 km) north of Samarra.
You're still saying it's not the oil?
3) Maintain control over oil coming out of Iraq and Kuwait.
Guess we are in the wrong country for control. Im thinkin we should have taken control of Saudi for control of oil theory.
*See above*
4) Destroy any and all political movements in Central Asia which challenge US authority
OH NO! imagine free societies in the mid-east after centuries of fighting. Peace? OMG NO!
*How about Afghanistan and Iraq?
How about we're building a camp on Iraq's frontier with Iran?
The only International support your referring to is German, Russian, China and France. You need to look into what kind of deals they had with Iraq and see what their motive was. But then again if the media doesn't report it, it must not be important.
Other than that even 3rd world little countries sent and still send troops there. But since they don't have world power they don't count in the UN?
The military isn't falling apart its the bickering over here that pulls it apart. As for the equipment blame the democrats military cuts over 8 yrs. All our equipment predates Bushs term. But then again you wont go for more money for equipment will you? Nope easier to blame Bush.
*Casper... we've spent 150 billion on this war so far. The last gulf war cost us 9 billion and Kosovo cost us 13 billion. We're paying Halliburton on a cost plus percentage basis for everything they do and THEY'VE GOT shell companies owned by the owners of halliburton that they're buying from and DELIBERATELY overcharging so halliburton can charge a higher dollar amount at the same percentage as THAT. You make what in a combat zone? 36K per year maybe for a spc?
Security guards working for independant contractors over there are making 12-15K PER MONTH and the companies they work for are squeezing US taxpayers for it.
The US pays $1000 per truck for deliveries. We're getting reports that it takes 28 trucks to deliver one full truckload of supplies..
yeah... more money for equipment. If only that were so...
After 150 billion spent... bush okayed 4 billion for armour upgrade last week.
Another think Casper: Bush has an expendable fund equal to about the GDP of Israel (110+ billion f'ing dollars) if he's such a great advocate of our men in uniform; why the f didn't he just SEND YOU THE STUFF?
Losses over there the best they have ever been in any war the US has fought in. Please don't try the Vietnam theory it disgraces the good people who actually fought that one.
*I've heard afew of them compare it.. I don't think they feel disgraced. They're just feeling bad because they see the same mistakes happening all over again.
2) that we're not trying to conserve or wean ourselves off of complete dependency on oil in our US markets. We could be shifting our energy usage to other sources, but Bush has almost completely cut funding for research into how to do that.
I really like this one.
*How about this one Casper?
from http://www.fcnl.org/issues/item.php?item_id=745&issue_id=24
...There are a few bright spots for energy conservation and efficiency in the President's budget, e.g. increased funding for weatherization assistance for low-income households, the Environmental Protection Agency's(EPA) public-private "Energy Star" partnership, and hydrogen fuel cell research. But the President would cut funding for most other energy conservation, efficiency, and renewable energy programs below FY04 appropriated levels, spending a total of less than $2 billion. Even the much-touted hydrogen initiative is problematic in its primary focus on developing fossil fuels and nuclear energy, rather than renewable sources, to produce hydrogen in the future. Living in the Detroit area (ya know where the cars come from) that's big talk even on the media about how Research is being pushed for alternatives, and yes even corn oil is making a come back...."
As for being the world leader in EU, I dont think we want the responsibility then we would have to have a commonwealth territory over there like France or Britain does. Leave the EU leading to them.
*they used to do almost anything we asked.. before Bush broke treaties with them.. | |
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