Baghdad Oil Refinery Ablaze


	Baghdad Oil Refinery Ablaze

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12-10-2007 11:38 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9b95cfb0-575a-4e03-a34c-bc42d5ef65ab/5D057EAB-7DCA-43F0-86B2-1197303B4A88/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9D0C6FD0-9F51-4706-83CE-F99DCC26511E.htm" href="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9D0C6FD0-9F51-4706-83CE-F99DCC26511E.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">english.aljazeera.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9D0C6FD0-9F51-4706-83CE-F99DCC26511E.htm"><DIV>Firefighters have been battling a fire at an oil refinery that supplies much of the fuel to produce power for Baghdad. </DIV><BR /><DIV>Iraqi oil officials said on Monday that the plant had been hit by a Katyusha-type rocket. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9D0C6FD0-9F51-4706-83CE-F99DCC26511E.htm">Assim Jihad, a spokesman for <ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><ST1:COUNTRY-REGION _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Iraq</ST1:COUNTRY-REGION></ST1:PLACE>'s oil ministry, said that a rocket had landed on a storage tank for refiined crude.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9D0C6FD0-9F51-4706-83CE-F99DCC26511E.htm">The Iraqi government also issued a statement blaming the inferno on a "terrorist attack", but said that the rockets had struck a benzine pipeline at the facility. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9D0C6FD0-9F51-4706-83CE-F99DCC26511E.htm">However, the US military later issued a statement saying that the blaze "was the result of an industrial accident".</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9D0C6FD0-9F51-4706-83CE-F99DCC26511E.htm">Jihad said that there were no casualties from the fire but the US military statement said that it was unclear whether anyone had been killed or wounded.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5D057EAB-7DCA-43F0-86B2-1197303B4A88/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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