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Iraq

Oil for Freedom
Part 4

71 Basra and Um Qasr

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71 Basra and Um Qasr
A makeshift stand selling motor oil from the Basra Oil Refinery to passing cars. Iraq has the second-largest petroleum reserves in the world, and Iraqis constantly ask why they are reduced to buying oil in this way when they have so much of it.

  
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