Terminal ops

Approaching the older of the two Iraq oil terminals, the aged mass of rusted steel resembles something out of Water World. The two pump oil into giant tankers, piped from Iraq's southern oil fields, worth about 90% of the country's GNP. They have been attacked by suicide bombers in the past - and successfully repelled by multiple layers of coalition security. There is a huge sunken steel crane just within sight of here, and barely inside Iranian waters. They have a constant presence on that structure, trying to keep an eye on us.