(Telegraph-UK) Damien McElroy - Iraq is reinforcing defenses around its northern oilfields and troops have been ordered to set the wells ablaze if there is an invasion, according to tanker drivers just back from the region. The British SAS has been given the task of preventing the sabotage of the wells if war starts. Retreating Iraqi troops torched 600 Kuwaiti oil wells during the last Gulf War, setting fires that burned for 10 months and destroyed six million barrels of oil a day.
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