Sabotage in the Shooting Gallery

The difficulties of policing an area the size of Iraq
are increasingly appearant. Three days after U.S.
troops and engineers reopened a major Iraqi
oil
pipeline
to
Turkey,
saboteurs
blew
it up again. Thamer al-Ghadaban, Iraq’s acting oil minister,
told reporters the 46-inch-wide pipe was blown up early Friday, sparking
a fire that still raged yesterday.

Meanwhile every crackpot fundamentalist with a grudge is making
for Iraq like teenaged Romeos heading for the midway to try to win a
Kweepie Doll for their girlfriends.

The sabotage, as well as continued attacks on U.S. troops,
underscored the vulnerability of America’s efforts to begin rebuilding
Iraq’s government and economy.

from
AP via Newsday