Restarting Iraqi Oil Industry Involves High Levels of Risk 5/19/2003
If there is any glory at all in war, this wars is spent. Whats left is cleanup.
Combats lethal leftovers litter the landscape and cluster on the perimeters of refineries, gas-oil separation plants and wellheads throughout southern Iraq. These facilities are desperately needed now to meet the fuel needs, not of motorists reeling from gas-pump sticker shock around the world but of Iraqs own people. Before they can be restarted, the grenades, mortar rounds, artillery shells, land mines and myriad other debris, known in the military trade as UXO, or unexploded ordnance, must be carefully collected and safely destroyed.