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This story was on CBS news last night, at least in my area.
Just here to live and learn.
Saw it on AOL. Still scary though.
"She has written so well, and marvellously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer...But this girl, who is to my knowledge very unpleasant and we might even say a high-grade bitch, can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers"
Ernest Hemingway on writer, aviation pioneer and horse trainer Beryl Markham
Does anyone know which mall? Its prolly Polaris or Easton. Both big, new, populated. Easton even has apartments......
RJC- do you live in Ohio?


it was terrorists who blew up the oil pipelines (obviously). Cost to Baghdad is $80,000,000 in lost daily revenue. Will take 7 days to replace the pipelines.
No, I don't live in Ohio, and unfortunately, I do not remember the name of the mall.Originally Posted by ami link=board=1;threadid=10153;start=msg122917#msg122 917 date=1087350600
Just here to live and learn.





Well duh, but who's behind it is what I wanna know. Who stands to benefit from that and why? I have been pretty caught up lately....Originally Posted by ace_barker link=board=1;threadid=10153;start=msg122943#msg122 943 date=1087352863





The theory goes that the islamic fundamentalist elements do NOT want average Iraqi people to be better off under the Coalition than they were under Saddam - Happy Iraqi's are likely to support a new democratic government while unhappy Iraqi's are likely to support the fundamentalist extremists in their own attempts to force the Coalition out of Iraq and take over the government themselves at the point of an AK47.Well duh, but who's behind it is what I wanna know. Who stands to benefit from that and why? I have been pretty caught up lately....
Blowing up oil pipelines winds up starving Iraqi refineries and electric power plants as well as starving the offshore terminals which ship Iraqi oil to other parts of the world. Thus the average Iraqi winds up with power blackouts and gasoline shortages. However, like many average people here in the USA, I'm sure that average Iraqis don't directly associate pipeline attacks by fundamentalist extremists with the fact that their power is out or their gas tank is empty. Instead they probably associate these things with the Coalition not doing a very good job.
On the financial front, not shipping oil to other countries means lost revenues for the Iraqi government. This reduces the amount of money available for the government to purchase other things internationally i.e. food and also reduces the amount of money available to rebuild security forces - which contribute to additional unhappiness for the average Iraqi.
Of course the oil companies handling overseas oil refining and sales also lose money, so the extremists supposedly have a motivation to do this to deprive US and UK oil companies of profits. However, many many oil companies are actually involved - I believe the largest is actually Total FINA which is French.





It made the news here in my town too.
I'm anxiously awaiting to see if Mels prediction of finding Osama just in time for elections comes true. I won't be surprised though. As it gets closer I think we'll see alot more of the we saved the day from the Bush campHe's into the whole rule by fear thing
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