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	Baiji, Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baiji is a city of about 60,000 inhabitants in northern Iraq some 130 miles north of Baghdad, on the main road to Mosul.
		However, a lack of maintenance and spare parts resulting from the United Nations trade embargo against Iraq caused the deterioration of the city's oil refinery, which by the late 1990s was in a very poor condition and was seriously polluting the surrounding area.
		Baiji was captured with little or no fighting during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baiji,_Iraq (465 words)

	Baiji, Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Baiji is a city of about 60,000 inhabitants in northern Iraq some 130miles north of Baghdad, on the main road to Mosul.
		After the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, dozens of British civilians taken captivein Kuwait were held at the Baiji oil refinery, apparently as human shield.The city was bombed during the 1991 Gulf War and about 80% of the oil refinery was destroyed.
		However, a lack of maintenance and spare parts resulting from the United Nations trade embargo against Iraq caused thedeterioration of the city's oil refinery, which by the late 1990s was in a very poor condition and was seriously polluting thesurrounding area.
	www.therfcc.org /baiji,-iraq-217102.html (444 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Baiji, Iraq - With its aging, decrepit and war-battered equipment, the largest refinery in Iraq has turned into an economic and environmental nightmare.
		Baiji's daily output of 150,000 barrels provides half of Iraq's fuel needs and the country's two other major refineries are also operating at capacity and can't take up any slack.
		Besides having to deal with the normal wear and tear that degrades machinery, the Baiji complex was the target of fierce allied air attacks during the 1991 Gulf War.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/sanction/iraq1/iraq03.htm (809 words)

	Baiji, Iraq -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The city was bombed during the 1991 (A war fought between a coalition led by the United States and Iraq to free Kuwait from Iraqi invaders; 1990-1991) Gulf War and about 80% of the oil refinery was destroyed.
		Baiji was captured with little or no fighting during the (Click link for more info and facts about 2003 invasion of Iraq) 2003 invasion of Iraq.
		Following the invasion, Baiji subsequently became the scene of a number of (A person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)) insurgent attacks.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/baiji,_iraq.htm (558 words)

	Fire still rages on Iraq's ... - Aug. 18, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But an AFP photographer at the scene earlier Sunday near Baiji, a town about 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Baghdad which is a vital hub in the network of pipelines that criss-cross Iraq, said the flat desert landscape around the blaze was deserted.
		Iraq, currently exporting 700,000 barrels per day (bpd) from its southern oilfields around the port of Basra, has the world's second largest oil reserves.
		The town of Baiji falls within a wedge of north-central Iraq where many still support Saddam and where attacks on US troops are frequent.
	www.inq7.net /wnw/2003/aug/18/text/wnw_6-1-p.htm (516 words)

	Iraq Suppliers - Supplying for the rebuilding of Iraq
		An increasing number of generation units are coming online at the Baiji Power Station in Baiji, Iraq, as part of the US Army Corps of Engineers mission to restore the country's electricity.
		Once all of the sections of the project are completed at Baiji, Iraqis and Coalition engineers working side-by-side will have added a total of 428 MW of additional generation capacity.
		The Baiji project employs approximately 400 local Baiji residents who work side-by-side with the coalition team in building new generation, switching and control systems to add capacity to the national grid.
	www.iraqsupplier.com /docs/projects/proj015.htm (495 words)

	Baiji
		BAIJI, Iraq, Nov 17 (Reuters) Fifteen Iraqis were killed and 22 wounded today when a suicide bomber rammed his car into a US armoured vehicle in the northern...
		BAIJI, Iraq, Nov 18 (Reuters) Four Iraqis were killed today when a roadside bomb destroyed a civilian car in the northern oil refining town of Baiji, police...
		In Baiji, a woman and four other civilians were shot dead by snipers after breaking the curfew that was slapped on the town after a recent spate of attacks...
	conservation.mongabay.com /Baiji.htm (3187 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Iraqi pipeline on fire after blast
		BAIJI, Iraq, Aug 1 (AFP) - A gas pipeline supplying a key Baghdad power station was on fire Friday near the northern Iraqi refinery town of Baiji after an overnight explosion, an AFP correspondent on the scene reported.
		Iraq's oil reserves, the second largest in the world, are estimated at 112 billion barrels, while its gas reserves are the world's 10th largest, according to the US-led coalition occupying Iraq.
		Baiji is part of the so-called Sunni triangle known for its support of ousted president Saddam Hussein.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/fa5be0d86a2fda6149256d7500205845 (351 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Iraq Power Grid Shows U.S. Flaws
		No electric plants had been built in Iraq since the 1980s, and most of the existing ones were nearing the end of their normal life cycles.
		Baiji, built in 1983, was a prime example of the disrepair.
		Bremer assigned Browning to increase Iraq's generation capacity to the prewar level of 4,400 megawatts by the end of September.
	www.truthout.org /docs_04/091304K.shtml (2770 words)

	Dar Al Hayat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Baiji, site of a major oil refinery, has seen a surge in violence over the past three weeks, since U.S. forces launched their offensive on Fallujah.
		But parties representing Iraq's 60-percent Shiite Muslim majority, oppressed under Saddam, are demanding polls go ahead on time to cement their political dominance in the new Iraq.
		Iraq's two main Kurdish political parties initially signed a petition calling for a delay in the vote, but have since said they would be happy for the election to go ahead as scheduled.
	english.daralhayat.com /arab_news/01-1800/20041130-Reu_MDF94662.TXT/story.html (1592 words)

	Iraq oil pipeline blown up by saboteurs
		Police and witnesses at the scene said a large explosion rocked Baiji Thursday night, while a fire along a section of pipeline was still raging Friday near the refinery town.
		Baiji is about 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of Baghdad and is a vital hub in the network of oil pipelines which criss-cross Iraq.
		The incident heightens concerns over Iraq's capability to maintain security on its pipeline network just as the main export line from Iraq's northern oilfields to Turkey, which runs through Baiji and was wrecked in a previous sabotage attack, was supposed to reopen.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article4315.htm (545 words)

	Police Flee As Saddam Loyalists Rise In City Revolt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Baiji contains the largest oil refinery in Iraq and is on a main oil pipeline.
		The crowds were particularly enraged, according to one report, by a rumour that the oil being taken by the Turkish truck drivers was to be sold in Israel.
		But there is no doubt that people in Baiji are more willing to express their support for Saddam Hussein than demonstrators in Ramadi and Fallujah, the Euphrates river towns where there have been repeated attacks on American troops.
	www.rense.com /general42/ee.htm (825 words)

	Encyclopedia: Tikrit
		Tikrit (تكريت, also transliterated as Takrit or Tekrit) is a town in Iraq, located 140 km northwest of Baghdad on the Tigris river (at 34.61°N, 43.68°E).
		The town, and much of Iraq with it, was devastated in the 14th century by the Mongol invasion under Timur Lenk.
		Many senior members of the Iraqi government during his rule were drawn from Saddam's own Tikriti tribe, the Al Bu Nasir, as were members of his Iraqi Republican Guard, chiefly because Saddam apparently felt that he was most able to rely on relatives and allies of his family.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tikrit (1247 words)

	Torn loyalties for home-grown Iraqi security (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		AT THE SPRAWLING Baiji train station, long ago looted of everything but rail cars, the men of the city’s Iraqi Civil Defense Corps lamented their first two months as a pillar of the U.S.-trained security forces that will inherit responsibility for keeping order in Iraq.
		The U.S. administration in Iraq has high hopes for the Civil Defense Corps and other forces it is aggressively training, projecting them as an eventual alternative to the 130,000 American troops in Iraq.
		Baiji, about 130 miles north of Baghdad, sits at the tip of the Sunni Triangle, a swath of territory in northern and western Iraq from which former president Saddam Hussein drew most of his support.
	www.msnbc.com /news/997725.asp?cp1=1 (2105 words)

	Middle East Online
		Baiji refinery, Iraq's biggest, battles to plug gruelling fuel shortage amid pipeline sabotage, looting.
		The Baiji refinery, about 225 kilometers (124 miles) north of Baghdad, is Iraq's largest, with a capacity of 300,000 barrels per day but now operating at almost half of that due to a slew of problems.
		Coalition officials were not available to comment on the plight of Baiji or Iraq's other main refineries in Basra and Dura, west of Baghdad, which are not faring any better and also working at slightly under half their capacity, according to the oil ministry.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english?id=8291 (847 words)

	Baiji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		BAIJI - Four US soldiers were killed and six wounded late on Tuesday in an attack on a patrol near the northern oil town of Baiji, 180 km (115 miles) north of...
		Iraq: Three Iraqi policemen were gunned down in Mosul and a foreign truck driver killed near Baiji on Saturday as three Afghans allegedly on their way to fight...
		BAIJI, Iraq -- Seven Iraqi policemen were killed and 15 wounded in a suicide car bomb in front of a police station in the northern town of Baiji, a senior...
	www.conservation.mongabay.com /news/Baiji.htm (7049 words)

	Baiji, Iraq
		Baiji is a city of northern Iraq; in the region of Mosul.
		Baiji is most notable for its oil refinery.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ba/Baiji,_Iraq.html (40 words)

	A Push for More Power at Iraqi Plant (washingtonpost.com)
		BAIJI, Iraq -- Plumes of thick fl smoke billowed from the Baiji power station, where a contingent of U.S. soldiers craned their necks and tried to count the long columns of soot shooting into the sky.
		The Baiji power station can produce more electricity than any plant in the country, but even here, progress is measured one megawatt at a time.
		The story of Baiji helps explain why power generation remains one of the most vexing reconstruction challenges in Iraq.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A30078-2004Aug24.html (742 words)

	ProgressiveResourceCatalog \| Bulletins / Bulletin1
		BAIJI, Iraq -- An hour before dawn, the sky still clouded by a dust storm, the soldiers of the Iraqi army's Charlie Company began their mission with a ballad to ousted president Saddam Hussein.
		The reconstruction of Iraq's security forces is the prerequisite for an American withdrawal from Iraq.
		But as the Bush administration extols the continuing progress of the new Iraqi army, the project in Baiji, a desolate oil town at a strategic crossroads in northern Iraq, demonstrates the immense challenges of building an army from scratch in the middle of a bloody insurgency.
	www.progressiveresourcecatalog.org /index.php/Bulletins/Bulletin1 (2475 words)

	US Sacks Police Chief And Sends More Troops To Restore Calm In Oil Town (Baiji, Iraq) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Part of the problem in Baiji is that the US-appointed police are mostly untrained men from the Jabouri tribe who come from villages outside the city and have no local links.
		Baiji, which has a population of about 60,000, is 160 miles north of Baghdad.
		It is economically important because it contains the largest oil refinery in Iraq and is on the main road between Baghdad and the northern capital of Mosul.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/996258/posts (632 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > In Iraq -- Tests cast doubt on possible find of Iraqi chemical weapons
		BAIJI, Iraq – A metal drum found in northern Iraq that initially tested positive for nerve and blister agents might instead contain rocket fuel, according to new tests, a U.S. chemical weapons expert said Monday.
		The suspicious barrel was among 14 barrels found in an open field near the Tigris River town of Baiji, among mounds of earth that hid missiles and missile parts.
		U.S. troops performed an initial test and found indications the barrel may contain the nerve agent cyclosarin and a blister agent that could be a precursor of mustard gas.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/iraq/20030428-1543-iraq-bannedweapons.html (529 words)

	Soldiers Raid Iraq City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		BAIJI, Iraq - By military estimates, the odds in this unruly city situated at the apex of the Sunni Triangle should be firmly in favor of the Americans.
		Philip Logan, commander of the 1st Battalion of the 103rd Armor Regiment, the unit that overseas Baiji and its surrounding area.
		For nearly nine hours, soldiers went house to house in a part of the city believed to be used by al Hamdani and his deputies, who are said to have bodyguards and multiple safe havens.
	www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,FL_raid_060705,00.html (1319 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Firefighters tried in vain to extinguish a blaze at a gasoline pipeline near the Baiji refinery in northern Iraq on Friday and U.S. authorities said they would have to shut down the line briefly.
		U.S. military officers in the 4th Infantry Division, which controls the area around Baiji, said it appeared someone had been digging near the pipeline and had ruptured it, but it was unclear whether this had been deliberate or accidental.
		Saboteurs attacked and damaged the main pipeline carrying crude oil to the refinery, 250 kilometres (90 miles) north of Baghdad, at the end of June and U.S. military and Iraqi officials in Baiji said Saddam loyalists were behind the sabotage.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2003/08/03/wor04.html (375 words)

	Printer-Friendly Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Armed with a list of "high value targets" that included names, aliases and physical descriptions, they searched for the "less than a couple dozen" insurgents who the top Army commander here estimates have made this dusty, dangerous city a hotbed for roadside bombs, vehicle bombs and suicide bombers.
		But military success in Iraq today is no longer solely determined by odds, by troop strength or even by who has more physical resources on the battlefield.
		Baiji, home to Iraq's largest oil-production facility and a key energy plant, has remained a restive insurgent hotspot since the invasion.
	www.military.com /Content/Printer_Friendly_Version/1,11491,,00.html?str_filename=FL_raid_060705&passfile=FL_raid_060705&page_url=/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_raid_060705,00.html (1311 words)

	04/26/01 -- Iraq's battered refineries battle pollution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		BAIJI, Iraq - Iraq's refineries, patched up after Gulf War bombing, are finding ways to process their polluting waste despite the constraints of United Nations sanctions, a senior oil official said yesterday.
		Hamid said before the imposition of U.N. sanctions, four waste-processing units at Baiji isolated poisonous chemical by-products and dealt with them by using waste-eating bacteria.
		Iraq is under stringent U.N. sanctions imposed for its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
	www.climateark.org /articles/2001/2nd/irbapoll.htm (398 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Iraq attack 'disrupts oil output' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The resulting fire was so huge the glow could be seen in the night sky in the town of Kirkuk, 30 kilometres (20 miles) away, say reports.
		That in turn is likely to cause disruption to oil production at the refinery in Baiji - Iraq's largest - the head of the oil company's fire department reportedly said.
		Iraq adopts its constitution which is almost derailed by a strong Sunni 'no' vote.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3232032.stm (408 words)

	Middle East Online
		Saboteurs blew up part of a key oil pipeline in northern Iraq which was still ablaze Friday following a big overnight blast, a senior official in the nearby refinery town of Baiji said.
		"It was a crude oil pipeline going from Kirkuk to Baiji," Majid Mamuni, general director in charge of pipelines at the refinery, said.
		Sabotage and looting have plagued Iraq's oil sector, with pipelines suffering crippling damage, while just 150 of 700 oil wells are in working order, officials have said.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english/iraq?id=6615 (601 words)

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