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To: who cares? who wrote (119)	3/24/2003 3:47:07 PM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger	of 214

1 down 6 to go! msnbc.com First of seven oil fires extinguished Renewed fighting slows work, prevents oil field tour by journalists March 24 -- NBC's Don Teague reports from the oil fields in southern Iraq on the challenges faced by crews and soldiers in putting out the oil well fires. MSNBC NEWS SERVICES KUWAIT, March 24 — Kuwaiti firefighters on Monday put out the first of seven oil wells blazing in Iraq’s vast southern Rumeila field as sporadic guerrilla-style resistance by armed Iraqis continued nearby. • In the battle zone • Iraq interactive library • Targets in Iraq • Target Baghdad • Urban warfare • Allied deployments • The 1991 oil fires • Tools of warfare • Scuds and Arrows • World Reax • NBC: Video reports from the field • Complete coverage: Conflict with Iraq U.S. AND BRITISH officials made an abrupt about-face Monday in their evaluation of Iraq’s most productive oil field, saying that the region that had previously been secured by their troops was now considered “unsafe.” The U.S. military canceled a press trip to the area, where journalists were to see the burning oil wells and learn about plans to extinguish the flames and restore production. The news came after a crack team from the Kuwait Oil Co. put out one oil well fire and had begun tackling six other wellheads on fire at the southern end of the 50-mile-long Rumeila oilfield near the border with Kuwait. The Kuwaiti experts used techniques mastered while battling more than 700 wellhead fires set by Iraqi troops fleeing the Gulf state in 1991 after a U.S.-led campaign ended Baghdad’s seven-month occupation. “We have just finished putting out the fire and are in the process of capping the well,” a senior Kuwaiti oil official told Reuters. The team, which fights fires only during daylight hours, could take up to four weeks to finish its work. Aside from the wells set alight, another 10 to 15 have been mined. While British troops were firming their grip on the southern oil region, a Kuwaiti oil executive said there were security problems in the northern section of the Rumeila field. Small groups of Iraqi troops in civilian clothes made it unsafe for journalists to travel to the region, British Lt. Col. Rob Partridge told Reuters. “At the moment there are groups of Iraqi forces dressed in civilian clothes in the area,” he said. “They are all over the bloody place.”

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