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Tue Aug-12-03 09:14 AM
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The troops fired warning shots towards AP reporters today in Iraq

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Edited on Tue Aug-12-03 09:15 AM by NNN0LHI

Why would they do that?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=716&e=3&u=/ap/20030812/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_pipeline_fire

Flames Shooting From Iraqi Oil Pipeline

AL-TAJI, Iraq - Flames were shooting 200 feet in the air from a burst oil pipeline at a town north of Baghdad on Tuesday, and American forces at the scene fired warning shots to keep journalists from reaching them.

Two M-1 Abrams tanks and three soldiers crouched in firing positions ordered an Associated Press reporter and photographer to stay back from the blaze near al-Taji, a region of date groves, military compounds and chemical plants. Before the war U.N. weapons inspectors were in the al-Taji area almost daily.

An Iraqi fire truck was prevented from approaching the fire.

"They were very hostile," said Lt. Hasannein Mohammed of the fire department.

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