From: "John Beamish" 

Reread the first sentence in the story.  Baghdad is isloated, not the entire country.

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:14:13 -0500, Adam field.near the bridge">
 wrote:

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> " The aluminum is melted into ingots and sold."
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> I take it they have power then...
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> "Damn it...we can't meltdown the power lines coz someone's nicked the
> powerlines".
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> Adam

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