Wojtek wrote:
> http://www.obleek.com/iraq/
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If you flip back and forth between that map and this one, there appears to be a starkly visual correlation between the casualty "bursts" and where the oil happens to be.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/iraq_oil_2003.jpg
Map link courtesy of: http://www.sunship.com/mideast/info/maps.html
Leigh