Insurgents struck at the heart of Iraq's economic livelihood Wednesday, blasting a major pipeline to halt vital oil exports and killing the top security chief for the northern oilfields.
A rocket slammed into a U.S. logistics base near Balad, 50 miles north of Baghdad, killing three U.S. soldiers and wounding 25 other people, including two civilian workers, the military said.
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"What you are seeing here is effectively a terrorist war against Iraq's critical infrastructure, including the oil infrastructure,'' coalition spokesman Dan Senor told CNN. ''It is an effort to basically, economically, impoverish the Iraqi people.''
In a tribute to Irony, the movie schedule for tonight was published on the Coalition Headquarters website. Here's tonights feature film.
Also Wednesday, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, one of the architects of the Iraq war, began talks with the interim Iraqi leadership. Coalition officials say about 60 percent of the Iraqi government already has been transferred to Iraqi control, including 15 of the 26 ministries.
Oh silly reporters, they always miss the real story...the Pentagon doing the State Department's job, for CheneyBurton. SCLM indeed.
