Baghdad's Big Oil Bust
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It's open season on Iraq's refineries and pipelines.
By Scott Johnson and Michael Hastings
Newsweek
Jan. 30, 2006 issue - Guarding the Fatah oil refinery used to be a
pretty straightforward job for Saif Mohammed. Insurgents hit only
sporadically, and usually missed important targets. But by early last
year, attackers were using rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and heavy
machine guns in brazen daylight assaults. They seemed to know about
everything and everybody in the refinery. Ambushes were common. "We
were afraid to even take vacation and go home," says 26-year-old
Mohammed. "The people who worked with us used to tip off the fighters.
They wanted to play both sides-to keep their jobs and be informants
for the terrorists."
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