Monday 18 August 2003 Iraqi Oil Guards  | The American-led administration in Iraq is going to bring in another six-and-half thousand guards to protect the country's oil. Most of the guards will be Iraqis. There were reports this weekend of two attacks on a pipeline to Turkey and another on a water main in Baghdad, which cut supplies to thousands of people. This report from Valerie Jones: |
 Listen to the story The breach in the water pipeline was a matter of frustration -- a large area of Baghdad without water for twenty hours.
But the fires burning in the oil pipeline to Turkey are a more crucial setback for hopes of rebuilding the country.
Local oil officials are blaming sabotage and with the pipeline once again shut down, Iraq is losing seven million dollars a day in oil revenue.
Now thousands more guards are being recruited to join more than five thousand Iraqis already watching the pipeline. But it stretches for around a thousand kilometres and protecting the whole length won't be an easy task; and unless Iraq can ensure a constant supply of its oil, customers may go elsewhere. Listen to the words breach formal word for break; here, break in supply pipeline large pipe through which oil or gas flows over long distances frustration feeling angry or irritated because something is not possible crucial setback event that delays something important sabotage planned action that stops something from being successful; during the French revolution workers used to throw wooden shoes or 'sabots' into machinery to stop it working oil revenue money from sales of oil recruited found for work in a particular job stretches covers that distance constant supply amount provided that stays the same over a period of time go elsewhere buy from another place  Read more about this story | |  | | | SEARCH IN LEARNING ENGLISH | | | |
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