The next time someone complains that the US "can't even get the power turned back on", consider this.
Saboteurs who toppled 500 electric transmission towers across Iraq are not just looters or insurgents, but apparently also utility workers or others in outlying regions who want to deny power to Baghdad and keep it for themselves, U.S. and Iraqi engineers and officials report.
Provincial cities are turning the tables after years under Saddam Hussein when they were starved of power so the capital could burn watts around the clock, these sources say.
"I know that Karbala and Hillah toppled the towers so as not to share with others," said a leading Iraqi electrical engineer, Baghdad University's Nihad Mohammed al-Rawi, referring to two southern cities.
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