Rocket Hits Oil Refinery Depot in SW Iran

Post-9/11 Era Forum

A rocket hit an oil refinery depot in southwestern Iran close to the border with Iraq and two people have been injured, Iranian government sources told Reuters on Friday.

The sources said it was not clear where the rocket, which hit the depot in the city of Abadan, had come from. Abadan is about 30 miles east of the southern Iraqi city of Basra.

It hit the building around 7:45 p.m. local time, they said.

Source: Reuters

I can vitrually guarantee that it wasn't us.. Iraq announced that they fully intended to light up their own oil fields amid conflict and lo & behold: oil fields are lit up. Bouncing a rocket off a refinery is just an extension of that: moronic demolition of Iraqi assets that MIGHT have been used to aid economic recovery in the country. Shooting themselves in the foot and laughing about it, surely they're high.

I'm sure they grow it somewhere Sean.

I'm just trying to figure out why Iraq is firing over the Iran border - is there a gathering i haven't heard about yet.

oh it was IraN.. didn't even notice that `til you replied.. damn single-letter differences in country names..

I am not saying US did it

but it makes alot of sense if they do infact light the oil, because chaneys oil company is responisble for rebuilding the oil wells in post iraq

It would make sense for Iraqi's to do it and blame it on America to involve Iran too. You are so one sided and bias with that comment. I say this because, even with your disclaimer - your verbatium points to only one side.

Not only that - It would cost too much to fix damaged works. they want to protect them, not destroy them to waste money fixing them.

The Pentagon has tapped a unit of the oil services company Halliburton Co. to deal with oil well fires in Iraq in the event of a U.S.-led war. The Pentagon said it would use a plan developed by Kellogg Brown & Root Inc. to control fires like those set by Iraqi forces in Kuwait at the end of the Gulf War in 1991, when some 700 wells were set ablaze. “U.S. PLANS are first to prevent the destruction of Iraq’s oil fields and second, if unable to prevent destruction, to control and mitigate the damage quickly,” the Pentagon said in a press release.
The plan by Halliburton’s Kellogg Brown & Root Services would be for “dealing, on short notice” with oil fires, the Pentagon said.
It took about 200 days for 10,000 engineers, firefighters, equipment operators and support personnel from around the world to control the oil well fires following the 1991 Gulf War.
The cost of putting out the fires alone has been estimated at up to $2.5 billion, with another $20 billion to repair the damage to in case the Iraqis set fire to the wells.


NOW IS THERE A REASON FOR THE US TO SET THE OIL ON FIRE???

GUESS WHO BENEFITS FROM THIS

DICK CHANEY

FOR THOSE THAT DON'T KNOW

HALLIBURTON IS DICK CHANEYS FORMER COMPANY, BUT HE IS STILL UNDER THEIR SALARY PAYROLL

PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE, AND SMOKE IT

We are talking about IRAN not IRAQ - did he say we were going into IRAN?

By the way - there is a private company from my state that will be dealing with fires as well. It is not owned by your hero DICK

Search4Couth: You essentially expanded upon your original comment - which, CONGRATULATIONS, falls into the same category as your original comment - and that is one of total and complete blasphemy.

This is pure proof that you blaze through posts without providing an ounce of any analytical intelligence to what it is your reading prior to passing it through your emotional filter - never minding your God given talents - which is to be rational and sensible in creating thoughts you intend to share with the general public.

Additionally, I'm happy to provide the pipe in which you intend to use to smoke your own - as I haven't developed a desire to smoke shwag.

I said I wouldn't be suprised if the US lights the oil wells

you guys came back at me, and said that doesn't make any sense and they wouldn't profit

I showed you, how infact they will profit from the fires, and that the company that will profit from the fires is related to our vice president

I haven't made any claims of this being true, If you actually read what I typed, I am just proving the point that most of you said it doesn't make sense that the US would do this, and they wouldn't profit

You completely ignored what I just stated. The contract applies to IRAQ , NOT IRAN. Your "claims" are 100% unsubstantiated and therefore moot. Respond accordingly, or not at all.

LOL, the article was about Iran

but we changed the discussion to Iraq