Air Force jet crashes in Iraqi province

[deadparrot]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Mortar rounds crashed into an oil processing facility near the northern city of Kirkuk on Monday, igniting a huge blaze, and a U.S. Air Force jet with one pilot crashed while supporting American soldiers fighting in Anbar province, a hotbed of Iraq's Sunni Arab insurgency.

The government fully lifted a curfew on Monday, allowing vehicles back on the roads and reopening the international airport on the fourth day after suspected Sunni insurgents used bombs and mortars to kill more than 200 people in Sadr City, a large Shiite slum, in the worst attack by militants in the war. Sectarian violence continued across the country with a total of 91 people killed or found dead.

The fire at the pipeline filtering facility shut down the flow of crude to the massive Beiji refinery to the southwest, according to an official at the North Oil Co., who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters. The flames erupted at 6:30 p.m. and burned for several hours before they were extinguished, the U.S. military said.

The facility is 15 miles northwest of Kirkuk, a city which sits amid some of Iraq's richest crude oil deposits.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061128/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[Captain Hilts]

1. Is this yesterday's plane crash? nt

[mike_c]

2. I suspect so....

Stories like this usually filter in for a couple of days.

[Up2Late]

4. I think it's the same one that crashed about 14 hours ago...

...according to the hits I got on Google News to the NYTimes and F-16.net. Man, the AP is right on top of this one.

<http://www.f-16.net/news_article2066.html>

<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/27/world/middleeast/28iraqcnd.html>

Hey, who knew there was a website called F-16.net and they didn't tell me? :wtf:

Hell, they even have the number of the jet (tail number?)!:evilgrin:

[tabasco]

3. It was the neocon plan all along to pull troops out of cities

and put them around the oil facilities. The result is civil war but as long as the oilfields and the Green Zone are secure, all is going according well to the neocon plan. But it looks like the oil facilities are the big targets now. I expect the corporate cabal will send as many troops to the quagmire as possible while their boy-monkey is still occupying the pResidency. In their neverending greed, they will screw this country hard in their desperate last throes of traitorous war profiteering.