Militants bomb Iraq's largest oil refinery

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MSNBC:

BAGHDAD — Militants attacked and shut down Iraq's largest oil refinery on Saturday, killing four workers and setting off bombs that started a raging fire, officials said.

The assailants broke into the Beiji refinery around 3:30 a.m. local time, attacking guards and planting explosives.

"The refinery has completely stopped," Salahuddin province Governor Ahmed al-Jubouri told Reuters. "It's a big loss for the whole country. All Iraqi cities depend on its production."

A former al-Qaida stronghold, Beiji is about 155 miles north of Baghdad.

The blast sparked a fire that was later brought under control, a police source said. It took about five hours and up to 50 fire trucks to contain the blaze.

The units that were damaged by the attack have a production capacity of around 150,000 barrels per day, a Beiji official said.

"Fixing the damage will take long time. We are not talking about days, the damage is too severe," said the Beiji official, who asked not to be named.

Iraq does not export any oil products as it uses all of its production for power generation and domestic consumption.
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This doesn't bode well for Iraq's future if it continues...

[Saltbag]

You can't impose a republic. How can we expect anything besides this?