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Thursday, 30th June 2005 by Alex Turnbull
An incredible image here of burning oil fields in Iraq, just north of Basra. Zoom out to see how far the plumes of smoke have travelled, and zoom in to see how huge the fires are. Thanks to Sean, Jason Thompson, Adam Parker, Yablo and others.
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