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Iraq Electric Grid Seized by Militias

Baghdad increasingly in darkness as armed bands horde power

By Heather McPherson,  Newser User

Posted Aug 23, 2007 11:31 AM CDT

(Newser) – Large swaths of Iraq's power grid have fallen under the control of armed militias, the New York Times reports. The balkanization of power stations worsens an already fragile situation in which insurgents blow up power lines and leave Baghdad without power at the height of...   Read full story »

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