{"id":635,"date":"2004-03-25T18:12:02","date_gmt":"2004-03-26T01:12:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-03-25T18:12:02","modified_gmt":"2004-03-26T01:12:02","slug":"iraq-oil-well-blown-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/25\/iraq-oil-well-blown-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Oil Well Blown Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting new twist in the ongoing <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2001887432_iraqdig25.html\" target=\"_blank\">Successful Liberation of Iraq.<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;..<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iii.co.uk\/shares\/?type=news&#038;articleid=4934673&#038;action=article\" target=\"_blank\">the director general of the Northern Iraqi Oil Co said<\/a> an explosion set an oil well ablaze in northern Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The explosion occurred at 3:30 pm (1230 GMT) because of an explosive charge planted by unknown individuals inside the well, located 75 kilometres west of Kirkuk,&#8221; said Adel Qazzaz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It inflicted massive damage in the well, and firefighters are having a hard time extinguishing it because the explosion occurred inside the well and not in the pipelines,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, the guerillas are actually planting explosives <i>inside oil wells.<\/i>  It is difficult to see how this wouldn&#8217;t be an inside sabotage job, which indicates that guerillas have infiltrated whatever security exists at the oil fields around Kirkuk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting new twist in the ongoing Successful Liberation of Iraq. &#8230;..the director general of the Northern Iraqi Oil Co said an explosion set an oil well ablaze in northern Iraq. &#8220;The explosion occurred at 3:30 pm (1230 GMT) because of an explosive charge planted by unknown individuals inside the well, located 75 kilometres [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}