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Baiji

Saladin Governorate, Iraq
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About Baiji

Baiji additionally spelled Bayji is a metropolis of about 200,000 population in northern Iraq. It is positioned some a hundred thirty miles north of Baghdad, on the main road to Mosul. It is a chief business centre excellent known for its oil refinery, the biggest in Iraq, and has a big strength plant. With regards to transport in the region, Baiji is a junction of the country wide railway community. After the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, dozens of British civilians taken captive in Kuwait have been held on the Baiji oil refinery, reputedly as human shields.

The metropolis become bombed at some stage in the 1991 Gulf War and about 80% of the oil refinery became destroyed. It become quickly rebuilt and changed into returned in motion handiest multiple months after the war's quit. However, a loss of protection and spare components as a result of the United Nations change embargo against Iraq brought about the deterioration of the metropolis's oil refinery, which through the late Nineteen Nineties become in a totally bad situation and became significantly polluting the encircling region.

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