Environment disaster looms in Iraq

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A looming environmental disaster in Iraq threatens the Tigris River and groundwater in a large region, The New York Times reported.

Iraqi officials said the government pumped massive amounts of an oil refinery byproduct called black oil into open mountain valleys and leaky reservoirs next to the Tigris in northern Iraq and set it on fire. The technique left huge black bogs in the region, which is home to Iraq's great northern refinery complex at Baiji.

The fires no longer burn, the newspaper said, but they created plumes of smoke that carried as far as 40 miles downwind to Tikrit
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More Co2 for the atmosphere and the poor people of Tikrit...

It might hurt their pocketbook and sense of Christian well-being. It doesn't exist..nada..never. Ask any good Republican. Why are you making up this stuff?

This area is the birthplace of humanity and religion. Shame on democrats for thinking that up right Christians would harm the birthplace of humanity. (as they decimate it)

Nevermind who did it, when the Tigris is burning with fire it might give the Ganges a run for it's polluted money! Hell on Earth? Sure. I can't imagine how Iraq will look in 20 years.