posted on June 12, 2006 05:00:42 AM
Iraq War Update 6/12/2006
Total 2,492 Dead American Troops
Total 18,254 Wounded American troops
Total 8 Dead American Troops.
Since Zarqawi's Death on 6/07/2006.
8 DEAD AMERICANS since Bush called Zarqawi's death a "Turning Point" and "Big Deal" in the Iraq War.
06/12/06 NPR: No Slowdown in Iraq's Sectarian Violence
Over the weekend, 83 bodies were delivered to the Baghdad morgue, a high figure even by the grim standards of a venue that has seen thousands of violent deaths this year. Meanwhile, roadside bombings in Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk...
06/12/06 RTE: Six oil workers killed in Baghdad's al-Dora district
Six oil workers were killed when the bus they were travelling in was hit by a roadside bomb in Baghdad's southern al-Dora district. 12 others were wounded in the blast.
"I DON'T GIVE THEM HELL I JUST TELL THEM THE TRUTH AND THEY THINK ITS HELL." HARRY TRUMAN
posted on June 13, 2006 05:41:22 AM
Iraq War Update 6/13/2006
Total 2,497 Dead American Troops
Total 18,254 Wounded American troops
Total 13 Dead American Troops.
Since Zarqawi's Death on 6/07/2006.
13 DEAD AMERICANS since Bush called Zarqawi's death a "Turning Point" and "Big Deal" in the Iraq War.
06/13/06 KMBC: Iraq Veteran Upset He Was Forced To Move
Charles Harris, 21, was deployed overseas in January 2003...He said he's faced hard times ever since he came home. First, he had trouble finding a good job and he fell behind on his mortgage. Now, Harris is being forced out of his home.
posted on June 14, 2006 03:57:58 AM
Iraq War Update 6/14/2006
Total 2,497 Dead American Troops
Total 18,254 Wounded American troops
Total 13 Dead American Troops.
Since Zarqawi's Death on 6/07/2006.
13 DEAD AMERICANS since Bush called Zarqawi's death a "Turning Point" and "Big Deal" in the Iraq War.
Oil, Politics and Bloodshed Corrupt an Iraqi City
By SABRINA TAVERNISE and QAIS MIZHER
Published: June 13, 2006 NY TIMES
BASRA, Iraq — Politics, once seen as a solution to the problems of a society broken by years of brutal single-party rule, has paralyzed the heart of Iraq's south.
Nabil al-Jurani/Associated Press
After a roadside bomb destroyed a British vehicle last month in Basra, wounding two, Iraqis poured gasoline on the flames from above.
This once-quiet city of riverside promenades was among the most receptive to the American invasion. Now, three years later, it is being pulled apart by Shiite political parties that want to control the region and its biggest prize, oil. But in today's Iraq, politics and power flow from the guns of militias, and negotiating has been a bloody process.
"We're into political porridge, that's what's changed," said Brig. James Everard, commander of the British forces in Basra. "It's mafia-type politics down here."
Police reports from the past five months read like war chronicles: Eight oil company employees murdered. Twenty caches of Russian rockets discovered, including a pile in the back of an ambulance. A tank of stolen oil found in a fake mosque. Shootouts reported between a politician's militia and the police, and between police officers.
Now, after two years of relative calm, Basra has a soaring murder rate (the 85 killings in May were nearly triple the number in January), a tattered oil industry and a terrified population.
posted on June 15, 2006 05:19:14 AM
Iraq War Update 6/15/2006
Total 2,497 Dead American Troops
Total 18,254 Wounded American troops
Total 13 Dead American Troops.
Since Zarqawi's Death on 6/07/2006.
13 DEAD AMERICANS since Bush called Zarqawi's death a "Turning Point" and "Big Deal" in the Iraq War.
6/15/06 Baghdad shut down.
Defense Minister Abdel Qader Mohammed Jassim hinted on Wednesday that the security operation would continue for several days. "This operation, we have timetable dates and it will build in strength," he said.
"What is going on is random killing, with 80 percent of violence against innocent civilians, 15 percent against Iraqi forces and five percent against coalition forces," said Jassim.
The security plan includes house-to-house searches of areas suspected of hiding insurgents as well as a crackdown on civilians carrying weapons.
A night-time curfew in Baghdad was also extended by two and a half hours and a vehicle ban was announced for during the Muslim midday prayer hours on Fridays.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani demanded that the plan focus on the whole of Baghdad and "not just certain areas".
"We do not want people to feel that the measure is targeting certain areas," said Talabani, who is a Kurd. "We want people to feel that it targets terrorists."
Increased sectarian strife in recent months has made Sunni Arabs in Baghdad suspicious of the Shiite-dominated armed forces.
06/15/06 KUNA: 60 UK soldiers a month suffer mental illness
The number of British soldiers diagnosed with psychiatric problems brought on by the stress of service in Iraq has dramatically escalated since the beginning of the war, according to new figures from the Ministry of Defence in London Thursday.
06/15/06 Xinhua: Gunmen shoot dead 4 worshippers, wounds 14 in Iraq's Tikrit
Unknown gunmen shot dead four worshippers and wounded 14 others in a pre-dawn attack on Thursday at a Sunni mosque in a town near Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, a local police source said.
posted on June 15, 2006 08:35:30 AM
It's amusing to see the ultimate power that Bigpeepa has over Stonecold. All Bigpeepa has to do is post the latest update on Iraq and it hits a button in Stonecold's head and he starts chanting mindlessly, trying in vain to block out reality.
posted on June 15, 2006 09:10:01 AM
Nice try but no cigar. You like to avoid the issue at hand too I see. The bigdumazz posts the same thing over and over and over again. Just returning the favor.
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Many misleading tricks in 2006. The new Demomoron slogan.
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posted on June 15, 2006 09:54:14 AM
A friend of mine working for KBR in Iraq told me that you can predict when a major raid is taking place, All cell phone service is shut down, stopping the IED's from being detonated by cell phones.
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Iraq Announces Info From Al-Zarqawi Raid
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's national security adviser said Thursday a "huge treasure" of documents and computer records was seized after the raid on terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's hideout, giving the Iraqi government the upper hand in its fight against al-Qaida in Iraq.
National Security Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie also said he believed the security situation in the country would improve enough to allow a large number of U.S.-led forces to leave Iraq by the end of this year, and a majority to depart by the end of next year. "And maybe the last soldier will leave Iraq by mid-2008," he said.
Al-Rubaie said a laptop, flashdrive and other documents were found in the debris after the airstrike that killed the al-Qaida in Iraq leader last week outside Baqouba, and more information has been uncovered in raids of other insurgent hideouts since then.
He called it a "huge treasure ... a huge amount of information."
When asked how he could be sure the information was authentic, al-Rubaie said "there is nothing more authentic than finding a thumbdrive in his pocket."
"We believe that this is the beginning of the end of al-Qaida in Iraq," al-Rubaie said, adding that the documents showed al-Qaida is in "pretty bad shape," politically and in terms of training, weapons and media.
"Now we have the upper hand," he said at a news conference in Baghdad. "We feel that we know their locations, the names of their leaders, their whereabouts, their movements, through the documents we found during the last few days."
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, meanwhile, pressed forward with his initiative to crack down on violence in Baghdad. Government forces fanned out across Baghdad for a second day, setting up checkpoints and frisking motorists.
Al-Maliki has promised the crackdown would not target any ethnic or sectarian group.
Gunmen killed an engineer and kidnapped another, and a detergent factory worker was shot to death as he was headed to work elsewhere in western Baghdad, police said, but no major violence was reported in the capital, a day after al-Maliki's major security operation was launched.
Elsewhere, however, gunmen stormed a Sunni mosque near Tikrit, killing four people and wounding 15, including a fundamentalist Sunni cleric who has spoken out against the killing of Iraqis as part of the insurgency.
In addition to announcing the security crackdown, al-Maliki opened the door Wednesday for talks with insurgents opposed to the country's political process as part of a national reconciliation initiative, but he said any negotiations would exclude terrorist groups. The plan could include a pardon for some prisoners.
A senior White House official said the Iraqis have indicated that they are looking for "models" in national reconciliation. Another official said al-Maliki had inquired whether Bosnians or South Africans might be able to provide expertise.
"There is also a space for dialogue with insurgents who opposed the political process and now want to join the political process after offering guarantees," al-Maliki said. "But on the other hand we are not going to negotiate with the criminals who have killed the innocent."
A top al-Maliki adviser told The Washington Post the plan could include pardons for those who had attacked U.S. troops. Adnan Ali al-Kadhimi told the Post "there is a patriotic feeling among the Iraqi youth and the belief that those attacks are legitimate acts of resistance and defending their homeland. These people will be pardoned definitely, I believe."
The security crackdown in Baghdad includes a curfew extended by 4 1/2 hours - from 8:30 p.m. until dawn - and a weapons ban. The government did not say how long the crackdown would last and declined to give precise numbers about checkpoints and troops.
Operation Forward Together, involving 75,000 Iraqi army and police forces backed by U.S. troops, began Wednesday at a crucial time - one day after Bush visited Baghdad to reassure Iraqis of Washington's continued support and exactly a week after al-Zarqawi's death in a U.S. airstrike.
During Bush's visit, Iraq's Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi asked him for a timeline for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Iraq, the president's office said.
posted on June 15, 2006 10:23:01 AM
The issue bigdopa is terrorism. It is real and if we stand by and do nothing, we are dead. That is the issue at hand. So plain and simple. You keep posting crap, I keep posting crap.
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Many misleading tricks in 2006. The new Demomoron slogan.
posted on June 15, 2006 10:43:00 AM
Bear,
I am starting to see a very good pattern for our American Troops in Iraq. I believe that soon Iraq's troops and Police will SOMEWHAT secure Baghdad.
If Baghdad gets somewhat secured and because of U.S. public pressure. Bush will DECLARE VICTORY and start withdrawing our Troops.
It looks like the rest of Iraq will be in turmoil but by then DUMBO will be able blame any problems in Iraq on the New Iraqi government.
Will Iraq be a stable country? I don't believe so and really don't care as long as our troops come home and we stop spending billions over there.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE NEED TO KEEP UP THE PRESSURE ON BOTH DUMBO BUSH AND LAWMAKERS. WITH CONTINUED PRESSURE FROM THE U.S. PEOPLE WE CAN GET OUR TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ AND THE MESS DUMBO BUSH STARTED.
posted on June 15, 2006 11:03:20 AM
Stone,
Only the minority in America. People like you that don't keep yourself current and sill support DUMBO BUSH BLINDLY. BELIEVE IRAQ WAS INVOLVED WITH THE TERRORIST ACT ON 9/11.
THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS NOW UNDERSTAND ITS DUMBO BUSH'S FOLLY THAT RECRUITED TERRORIST TO IRAQ.
You sound like a very frightened person by saying "The issue bigdopa is terrorism. It is real and if we stand by and do nothing, we are dead."
Don't you know the old neocon trick of spreading fear isn't working any longer. You really are out of touch.
posted on June 15, 2006 12:17:01 PMBELIEVE IRAQ WAS INVOLVED WITH THE TERRORIST ACT ON 9/11
Wake up. It's no secret that Iraq was not involved with 9/11. But the fact is, the terrorists are there NOW. Get it? Or is your demomoron state of mind clouding reality?
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Many misleading tricks in 2006. The new Demomoron slogan.
posted on June 16, 2006 05:23:41 AM
Iraq War Update 6/16/2006
Total 2,500 Dead American Troops
Total 18,490 Wounded American troops
Total 16 Dead American Troops.
Since Zarqawi's Death on 6/07/2006.
16 DEAD AMERICANS since Bush called Zarqawi's death a "Turning Point" and "Big Deal" in the Iraq War.
06/16/06 VOA: Suicide Bombing in Baghdad Mosque Kills 10 (update)
Iraqi authorities say a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than 20 others.
06/16/06 AFP: Gunmen kill three and kidnapped nine near Suwayrah
Gunmen in two trucks stormed two villages in the early hours Friday and killed three people and kidnapped nine others, police said. The two villages are located near the town of Suwayrah, 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Baghdad.
posted on June 17, 2006 05:21:45 AM
Iraq War Update 6/17/2006
Total 2,501 Dead American Troops
Total 18,490 Wounded American troops
Total 17 Dead American Troops.
Since Zarqawi's Death on 6/07/2006.
17 DEAD AMERICANS since Bush called Zarqawi's death a "Turning Point" and "Big Deal" in the Iraq War.
HEY DUMBO IS THIS WHAT YOU CALL A "TURNING POINT"? BRING OUR TROOPS HOME STARTING TODAY.
06/17/06 Reuters: Attacks in Baghdad kill at least 31
Bomb and mortar attacks killed at least 31 people in and near Baghdad on Saturday in violence that showed no sign of easing despite a security crackdown against al Qaeda in the capital.
posted on June 17, 2006 09:55:23 PM
Hey peepa.....you NOT going to give our troops CREDIT for all the terrorists THEY have killed, injured in Iraq?
[Their SUCCESSES????]
Seems a little more than UNFAIR, since you SAY you support them....that you're NOT reporting on U.S. VICTORIES....ONLY ON THEIR DEATHS.
Secondly you can continue SCREAMING as long as you wish....BUT did YOU miss the vote THIS WEEK, in BOTH the HOUSE AND THE SENATE, that VOTED "NO", on WITHDRAWING OUR TROOPS??????? lol lol lol
Sure looks like it to me. They AREN'T going to 'cut and run'....they AREN'T going to 'admit defeat' to the terrorists.
So again, you find YOUR position on 'bringing them home now' is NOT SUPPORTED BY THIS CONGRESS.
Why? Because BOTH HOUSES SUPPORTED OUR PRESIDENT....WE'RE STAYING AS LONG AS IT TAKES.
SCREAM AWAY......
While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation:
What would a Democrat president have done at that point? Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack.
Ann Coulter
posted on June 17, 2006 11:10:58 PMSCREAM AWAY......
To me, CAPS never bother me and I seldom read it as screaming. But when I see a poster start bolding lots it looks like the poster is nearing the edge and when they reach the point where they constantly write with bolding and CAPS and sprinkle it with lots of lol lol lols and throw in additional berserk and tsks I get the impression that they are teetering and ready to go over the edge at any time........ yikes, just any comment on any topic anywhere could send them there....... hahahaha
Please know this is just the way I personally view things though.
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Back on topic.............
U.S. troops search for 2 missing soldiers
By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. troops on Saturday searched for two soldiers missing after an attack that killed one of their comrades at a checkpoint in the so-called "Triangle of Death" south of Baghdad.
U.S. Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said four raids had been carried out since Friday's attack and that ground forces, helicopters and airplanes were taking part in the search.
He said a dive team also was going to search for the men, whose checkpoint was located by a Euphrates River canal near Youssifiyah, 12 miles south of Baghdad.
The New York Times reported that Iraqi residents in the area said they saw two soldiers taken prisoner by a group of masked guerrillas. It said the two surviving soldiers were led to two cars and driven away.
Fellow soldiers at a nearby checkpoint heard small-arms fire and explosions, and a quick-reaction force reached the scene in 15 minutes, the military said. The force found one soldier dead but no sign of the two others.
"We are currently using every means at our disposal on the ground, in the air and in the water to find them," said Caldwell, the spokesman for U.S. forces in Baghdad.
The area is known as the Triangle of Death because of the frequent ambushes and attacks against U.S. soldiers and Iraqi troops.
The spokesman noted the military was still searching for Sgt. Keith Matthew Maupin, who went missing on April 9, 2004.
"We continue to search using every means available and will not stop looking until we find the missing soldiers," he said.
Maupin was captured when insurgents ambushed his fuel convoy with the 724th Transportation Co. west of Baghdad. A week later, Arab television network Al-Jazeera aired a videotape showing Maupin sitting on the floor surrounded by five masked men holding automatic rifles.
That June, Al-Jazeera aired another tape purporting to show a U.S. soldier being shot. But the dark, grainy tape showed only the back of the victim's head and did not show the actual shooting. The Army ruled it was inconclusive whether the soldier was Maupin.
A 20-year-old private first class at the time of his capture, Maupin has been promoted twice since then.
posted on June 18, 2006 07:51:10 AM
Iraq War Update 6/18/2006
Total 2,502 Dead American Troops
Total 18,490 Wounded American troops
Total 18 Dead American Troops.
Since Zarqawi's Death on 6/07/2006.
18 DEAD AMERICANS since Bush called Zarqawi's death a "Turning Point" and "Big Deal" in the Iraq War.
HEY DUMBO BUSH IS THE TROOP DEATHS AND WOUNDED FIGURES ABOVE ALONG WITH BAGHDAD NEWS BELOW WHAT YOU CALL A "TURNING POINT"?
START BRINGING OUR TROOPS HOME TODAY FROM YOUR FAILED ILLEGAL WAR STARTED ON LIES.
06/18/06 Reuters: Ten bodies found in Baghdad, Mortar fire wounds 6
Ten bodies were found overnight in different parts of the capital, police said...Six people were wounded in a mortar attack in northern Baghdad, police said.
06/18/06 AP: Gunmen seize 10 workers from bakery in Baghdad
In Baghdad, gunmen arrived in two cars, broke into the bakery and abducted the 10 workers in the northern suburb of Kazimiyah, police Lt. Mohammed Khayoun said.
posted on June 19, 2006 06:04:17 AM
Iraq War Update 6/19/2006
Total 2,503 Dead American Troops
Total 18,490 Wounded American troops
19 DEAD AMERICAN TROOPS since Bush called Zarqawi's death on 6/07/2006 a "Turning Point" and "Big Deal" in the Iraq War.
HEY DUMBO BUSH IS THE TROOP DEATHS AND WOUNDED FIGURES ABOVE ALONG WITH BAGHDAD NEWS BELOW WHAT YOU CALL A "TURNING POINT" and BIG DEAL?
START BRINGING OUR TROOPS HOME TODAY FROM YOUR FAILED ILLEGAL WAR STARTED ON LIES.
06/19/06 newindpress: Parked car bomb strikes Iraqi army convoy, kills five
A parked car bomb struck an Iraqi army convoy on Monday, killing five people and wounding nine...The explosion occurred at 10 a m on Mustansiriyah Square in eastern Baghdad...three soldiers and two civilians were killed
06/19/06 AP: Names Released Of 2 Missing U.S. Soldiers
Pvt. Kristian Menchaca, 23, from Houston, and Pvt. Thomas Tucker, 25, of Madras, Ore., were last seen on Friday during an attack on a roadside checkpoint south of Baghdad...David Babineau, 25, of Springfield, Mass., was killed in the attack.
06/19/06 KUNA: Four Iraqis killed, ten injured in bomb explosion
Four Iraqis were killed and ten others were injured Monday in a bomb explosion in the north district of Baghdad, Iraqi Police announced today.
posted on June 19, 2006 02:34:10 PM
IF THE CRIMES CHARGED TO OUR TROOPS WERE COMMITTED. I SAY BUSH,CHENEY AND RUMSFELD SHOULD BE CHARGED AND HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CRIMES BELOW NOT OUR TROOPS.
IT IS BUSH,CHENEY AND RUMSFELD THAT SEND OUR YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN TO AN ILLEGAL WAR UNDER MANED AND UNDER EQUIPPED 2,3 OR 4 TIMES.
URGENT - U.S. Army charges 3 soldiers in deaths of Iraq detainees
June 19, 2006 11:52 AM
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The U.S. Army has charged three soldiers in connection with the deaths of three Iraqis who were in military custody in southern Iraq last month, the military said Monday.
The Multinational Corps-Iraq said three members of 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division have been charged in connection with the deaths of three male detainees during an operation near Thar Thar Canal in southern Salahuddin province on May 9.
''A noncommissioned officer and two soldiers each have been charged with violating several articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice including murder, attempted murder, conspiracy, communicating a threat, and obstructing justice,'' an announcement said.
It added that ''on the day the alleged murders occurred, the unit commander ordered an inquiry to determine the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the three detainees.''
It said that a criminal investigation began May 17 and was ongoing.
''The soldiers are currently in pre-trial confinement awaiting an Article 32 hearing to determine if sufficient evidence exists for the case to be referred to court-martial,'' the announcement said
Once charged, defendants have the right to an Article 32 hearing, the military equivalent of a grand jury investigation.
Last week, the Army said it had opened a criminal investigation into the suspicious deaths of three men in military custody in Iraq.
The investigation was requested by Lt. Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, commander of multinational forces in Iraq, who acted after other soldiers raised suspicions about the deaths.
SHOW REAL SUPPORT FOR OUR TROOPS GET THEM OUT OF IRAQ.
posted on June 19, 2006 07:17:25 PM
"Nobody thinks the way we do. We have a strange spark, and that spirit is what defines America. Freedom, democracy, liberty, and the willingness to use force when necessary to help preserve those ideals----that's what we're all about.
"You pick any man or woman on the street in the Middle East and give him or her the option of staying put or coming to America to start their lives over again with the rights and freedoms we identify ourselves by, and they'll choose the good ol' USA every time. They might burn our flag for the cameras, but throw a handful of green cards in the air and they'd cut each other's throats to get their hands on them."
----From a recent book I read... "“More Iraqis think things are going well in Iraq than Americans do. I guess they don’t get the New York Times over there.”—Jay Leno".
posted on June 19, 2006 08:57:02 PM
Bear,
Your right nobody thinks the way BUSH,CHENEY AND RUMSFELD does.
When they started the Iraq War they needed to make sure there was enough planing and enough force was committed to win the Iraq War.
Three years and three months later. With 2503 dead troops along with 1 billion,200 million U.S. Dollars being spent weekly they STILL have no plan of winning or getting out.
IF YOU REALLY SUPPORT AMERICA AND OUR TROOPS. MAKE SURE YOU DEMAND OUR TROOPS COME HOME STARTING NOW.
MORE UNCONTROLLED MESS IN IRAQ BELOW
Iraq's disastrous 'black oil' swamps
By James Glanz The New York Times
Published: June 18, 2006
BAGHDAD An environmental disaster is brewing in the heartland of Iraq's northern Sunni-led insurgency, where Iraqi officials say that in a desperate move to dispose of millions of barrels of an oil refinery byproduct called "black oil," the government pumped it into open mountain valleys and leaky reservoirs next to the Tigris River and set it on fire.
The resulting huge black bogs are threatening the river and the precious groundwater in the area. The suffocating plumes of smoke are carried as far as 65 kilometers, or 40 miles, downwind to Tikrit, the provincial capital that formed Saddam Hussein's base of power.
An Iraqi environmental engineer who has visited the area described it as a kind of black swampland consisting of oil-saturated terrain and large standing pools of oil stretching across several mountain valleys. The clouds of smoke, said the engineer, Ayad Younis, "were so heavy that they obstructed breathing and visibility in the area and represent a serious environmental danger."
At Iraq's damaged and outdated refineries, as much as 40 percent of what is produced pours forth as this heavy, viscous substance, which used to be extensively exported to more efficient foreign operations for further refining. But the insurgency has stalled government- controlled exports from the area containing Iraq's major northern refinery complex at Bayji, the officials say.
So the backed-up black oil - known to the rest of the world as the lower grades of fuel oil - was sent along a short pipeline from Bayji and dumped in a mountainous area, called Makhool.
A series of complaints handed up the Iraqi government chain were conveyed to oil industry officials, and as of last weekend the fires had at least temporarily stopped, but black oil was still being poured into the valleys, according to Younis, who works in the province's Department of Environment and Health Safety.
With few options for disposing of Bayji's current production of black oil and so much at stake for the Iraqi economy, it is unclear whether the government will be able to hold the line on the burning at Makhool. A U.S. official in Baghdad said last week that Bayji was still turning out about 90,000 barrels a day of refined products, which would yield about 36,000 barrels a day of black oil.
Iraq's refineries will grind to a halt if the black oil does not go somewhere.
"Unless we find a way of dealing with the fuel oil, our factories will not work," said Shamkhi Faraj, director of economics and marketing affairs at the Oil Ministry.
The dumping and burning has embarrassed officials in the Oil Ministry and exposed major gaps in the American-designed reconstruction program.
Mussab al-Dujayli, a technical expert at the State Oil Marketing Organization, which he directed until March, said that the disposal defied sound engineering practice.
"The consequences of it are dreadful," Dujayli said. "God forbid."
posted on June 20, 2006 05:23:49 AM
Iraq War Update 6/20/2006
Total 2,504 Dead American Troops
Total 18,490 Wounded American troops
20 DEAD AMERICAN TROOPS since Bush called Zarqawi's death on 6/07/2006 a "Turning Point" and "Big Deal" in the Iraq War.
06/20/06 AP: Japan PM announces withdrawal from Iraq
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Tuesday announced the withdrawal of Japanese ground troops from southern Iraq.
06/20/06 Reuters: Seven bodies retrieved from the Tigris river
Iraqi police retrieved the bodies of seven people from the Tigris river on Monday in Suwayra, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. The bodies were handcuffed, blindfolded and bearing signs of torture, police added.
06/20/06 Reuters: Car bomb kills seven in Baghdad market
A car bomb exploded in a crowded Baghdad market on Tuesday, killing seven people and wounding 18, police said. The bomb exploded among morning shoppers in the market in the eastern district of Jamila, a police source told Reuters.
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