Baghdad Sky Blacken by Blazing Oil Trenches

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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.

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It's all US' fault. The situation wouldn't have come to this point of they had not attacked.

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They are :crying: cause the precious oil is burning. Do you notice at the start of most “expert opinions” the first topic is usually oil wells? And this war is not about oil…