Iraqi rebels bomb Baghdad water pipeline at height of summer

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These rebels really care about the people of Iraq, warms the heart.
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BAGHDAD (AFP) - At the height of summer, Iraqi rebels bombed a water pipeline feeding Baghdad, cutting off supplies to half the city in the third such attack in three weeks.

The pipeline carries water to Karkh, on the west side of the capital, where temperatures currently top 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit).

“The pipeline linking the Tarmiyah pumping station to the capital was sabotaged,” an official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

“We are going to the site to evaluate the damage,” he added Thursday.

On July 1, rebels bombed the Tarmiyah pumping station and repairs took four days.

On June 19, the Taji purification station, north of the capital, was bombed and required a fortnight to be repaired. About a million people were without drinking water for four days.

Baghdad’s 6.5 million population is often victim to water shortages because of the poor state of installations. Some 97 percent of inhabitants have running water, but only 63 percent get it on a regular basis, according to UN figures.

The United States has poured some two billion dollars to fund reconstruction projects in the capital over the past 18 months, but a significant amount goes to ensuring security for the projects, according to a senior US military officer.

Speaking before the latest attack, the officer, who declined to be named, said such attacks suggested a “new turn in strategy” for rebels who are out to disrupt essential services to the capital.

He pointed to two other assaults on the city’s water supply and to a recent bombing of a gas pipeline south of the city, which is still on fire.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050707/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestbaghdadwater

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nice target.. water being supplied to residents is cut but oil pipelines to haifa are left alone.. very smart insurgents i must say..

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oil pipelines better protected I'd say.

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That speaks volumes!

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It's all a matter of perspective UTD. If the US cut off water supplies to half of Baghdad, it would be torture and a war crime. When the insurgents do it, it is a matter of legitimate resistance. If the US did it, the motivation would be to kill Iraqi women and children. When the insurgents do it, the motivation is to ...... uh.....help me out here...... uh..... D*mn, I think I need to phone a friend.

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^^ Rid the country of Zionist Crusader Occupiers? OR, to make everybody really smelly.

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The US bombed water treatment plants and electricity supply during gulf war I and II look at the hypocritical moaners now !

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A quick question does that water by any chance feed into the US base first?

Actually the bombed schools, children hospitals etc. But remember its all ok because them rag heads be terrorists. Soon the Naplam will be dropping...wait it already is!

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That they would intentionally target the water pipes knowing that the general population would be the ones to suffer? It certainly does speak volumes doesn’t it Thap. Who knew you would have to protect the water sources from such animals.

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It’s sick that the terrorists would use such places as bunkers isn’t it? Don’t forget to add mosques to the list.

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Lol Bunkers. Let me guess Jessica Lynch was also in one of those so called bunkers :rolleyes:

The power of propoganda is so evident.

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The power of denial is apparently even stronger.

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Odd isn't it that the UN, HRW, AI and the entire press around the world save for the US press is in denial then.

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They are denying that schools, hospitals, mosques have been used as "insurgent/ rebel/ terrorist hideouts/bunkers?

Link me up brother.

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Do a google. There are too many sources to list plus it ain’t my job to educate you.. But i do remember one article during the first Iraq war where the US bombed a hospital and then gave an excuse that it held nuclear weapons. It was covered by the economist.

This one mentions AP and Reuter sources. I can find more.

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I'll read the whole thing but have just started and quote,

"U.S. forces stormed a hospital in Nasiriya on April 1 and 2 and later showed evidence that it had been illegally used by Iraq for military purposes"

You cannot truthfully deny that these locations (hospitals, schools, mosques) have been used as bases for rebels/insurgents; I have a hard time believing you don't know that. Civilian causalities must be avoided whenever at all possible, I’m not going to sit here and say that this has always been followed nor will I defend strikes when it is not. War is a messy and confusing thing and innocents will be killed in the flash of things but the U.S. military has spent billions developing weapons hoping to avoid innocent losses, that is a fact.

Saddam had control of Iraq because he was ruthless while the U.S., as much as you may not like to believe it is not ruthless the majority of times (we have all seen disturbing and inexcusable exceptions) hence the lack of total control.

That said, the terrorists, be them Muslims or other, who struck London yesterday are ruthless as are the Iraq insurgents who deliberately target civilians.

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That said, the terrorists, be them Muslims or other, who struck London yesterday are ruthless as are the Iraq insurgents who deliberately target civilians.
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You accept the same for the American soliders that bombed the red cross, the wedding ceremonies and innocents?

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If they targeted innocents deliberately of course.

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Hospitals and schools are hideout bunkers? i have heard pathetic things that has got to be the lamest !

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its war u know.both way its collateral damage