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Days after Kirkuk was freed, much of the city was missing: furniture and air conditioners from government buildings, beds from the hospitals, even the daffodils in front of the Ministry of Northern Iraq. Nearby, the Pepsi bottling plant was in flames. But one thing was perfectly intact: the machinery around the city's oil fields, which produce about a third of Iraq's oil exports. American soldiers, who were almost absent from the city where so much looting was going on, were out in force around the adjacent oil fields, which account for a third of Iraq's oil exports...
...This city is under Kurdish occupation," fumed Mustafa Kamal Yaycili, Kirkuk representative for the Iraqi Turkman Front, the main Turkish political party. His new office was dark, since workers at the power plant walked off the job for fear of the looters, cutting power in the entire city. Yaycili claimed the Kurds were stealing land and personal ID records. "They are changing the demographics of the city. If it keeps going like this there will be violence between us and the Kurds. The Turkish military needs to come here to stop the massacre. The Americans are only protecting...
...Baseball America’s annual summer prospect rankings—in which Hendricks was named the No. 7 prospect in the NECBL—college baseball guru John Manuel described Hendricks as “a big (6-foot-3, 215) power plant from both sides of the plate.” Playing with prospects from top baseball programs like Clemson and Arizona State, Hendricks was as productive as he was in the Ivy League, and the scouts noticed...
...roughly two-thirds of industry revenue. RVs are made with components from many companies--say, a chassis from Workhorse Custom Chassis, slide-out gear from Actuant and a generator from Onan, a division of Cummins. Back in 2001, RV demand fell so low that some assembly lines and entire plants had to be idled. Industry leader Winnebago of Forest City, Iowa, avoided layoffs with four-day workweeks and a short production halt late in the year. But as demand shot up in the wake of 9/11, the company was buried in orders and spent nine months running overtime. Indiana...
...dawn Monday, Colonel Ben Hodges, Commander of the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne, climbed a 150-foot tower, standing on a recently abandoned electrical plant. He was going to watch the opening phases of the brigade's first offensive operations. In the morning chill, he saw the brigade's 3rd Battalion form up behind a low berm south of the An Najaf Airport. At exactly 6:30 AM the battalion, supported by five tanks, swept across the airfield in almost textbook fashion. By 9:00 AM one of the largest airports in southern Iraq was declared secure and Army...