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(23 Apr 2003) Gas-oil separation plant, Rumeila oil field, south of Basra 1. Various of oil gushing from ground 2. Oil gushing from well in foreground, gas flares from oil wells in background 3. US General Robert Crear and other US army officials entering gas-oil separation plant 4. General Crear walks up to workers at plant 5. Various of Crear going to pipeline and filling bottle with crude oil, people applaud 6. Close up of oil-filled bottle in Crear's hand 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Robert Crear, US Army: "This is going to go a long way to alleviate some of the problems they have right now and also brings a sense of normalcy back to the Iraqi people, they really deserve this." 9. Oil surges up from well 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) General Robert Crear, US Army: Responding to question about critics who say America only fought this war to get its hands on Iraqi oil?" "I would say they couldn't be any further from the truth. This is for the Iraqi people, that's why we're doing this. I think you can see for yourselves none of this would be exported, right now the concern is domestic and that's the production that we have brought on line. The system itself is not fully up yet but we've figured out a way to do it in such a way to alleviate some of the suffering, or prevent some of the suffering that could happen without an adequate supply of oil for domestic consumption." Basra oil refinery 11. Wide shot of Iraqi workers spinning wheel on pipeline 12. Iraqi workers welding pipes 13. Pan of refinery Gas-oil separation plant, Rumeila oil field, south of Basra 12. Various of Crear talking to US private oil contractor (wearing sunglasses) 13. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Issa Ashur, Iraqi Oil Worker: "We're very limited in what we are doing right now, we can't touch anything unless we get orders to do so. We're just a tool now." 14. Various of gas flares burning from oil wells STORYLINE: Iraqi oil began flowing again on Wednesday for the first time since US-led forces toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein. Coalition forces, aided by Iraqi oil workers, fired up a gas-oil separation plant that sent oil to a pumping station and storage tank in Zubayr, outside the key southern city of Basra. Officials had planned to pump the oil to a refinery, but unexploded ordnance near the pipeline made that unfeasible on Wednesday. US General Robert Crear, who is in charge of restoring Iraq's oil infrastructure, said the development marked the return of normality for the Iraqi people. Within six to 15 weeks, Iraq's southern Rumeila oil field, one of the country's largest, could be producing up to 1.1 (m) million barrels a day, Crear said. Workers said production at Rumeila had been shut off just before the start of the war on March 20. Money from renewed sales of exported oil is expected to be the major source of income in helping Iraq rebuild after three wars and more than a decade of economic sanctions. Despite the presence of US oil contractors at the site, Crear denied that America wanted to divert Iraqi oil for its own use. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...