Slow Burn

An Iraqi man watches an oil spill burn in the Tigris River in Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2007. The spill reached Tikrit after a bomb went off under the pipeline in the northern city of Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, setting off a fire and causing huge quantities of crude oil to spill into the Tigris. The U.S. military said the blast was the work of al Qaeda insurgents in the area.

Credit: AP Photo/Bassem Daham