5 million people breathing this crap in…
Iraq Sets Oil-Filled Trenches Ablaze Around Baghdad
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi forces lit oil-filled trenches around Baghdad on Saturday in an apparent bid to create a smokescreen over the city to hinder air strikes by U.S. and British forces, Reuters correspondents said.
At least two dozen fires were raging around Baghdad, sending plumes of thick black smoke into the sky. “We can smell burning oil in the city,” one reporter said.
But the fires, lit in an apparent bid to confuse U.S. and British missiles or bombers flying over the Iraqi capital, might not be effective because many modern weapons use satellites to navigate.