BAGHDAD IRAQ GUARDS
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Valerie Jonesová z Iráku:

The breach in the water pipeline was a matter of frustration - a large area of Baghdad without water for twety hours. But the fires burning in the oil pipeline to Turkey are a more crucial setback for hopes of rebuilding the country.

Local oil officials are blaming sabotage and with the pipeline once again shut down, Iraq is losing 7 million dollars a day in oil revenue. Now thousands more guards are being recruited to join more than five thousand Iraqis already watching the pipeline.

But it stretches for around a thousand kilometres and protecting the whole length won't be an easy task.


VOCABULARY

• oil pipeline - ropovod


• water pipeline - vodovod


• sabotage (fr. sabots) - sabotáž


• setback - zbrždění, zhoršení situace


• rebuilding the country - obnova země


• oil revenue - příjem z ropy


• to recruit - rekrutovat, zaměstnat


• thousands more guards - tisíce nových strážných


• it stretches for a thousand kilometres - táhne se na tisíc kilometrů