Reports of fires at Iraqi oil wells feed fears of widespread sabotage

NEAR THE KUWAIT-IRAQ BORDER (AP) - Flames lit up the nighttime desert sky from the direction of Iraq's petroleum center Basra, and U.S. and British forces entering southern Iraq saw oil wells on fire. 

U.S. military planners and oil importers have feared Saddam Hussein would order troops to sabotage their country's precious patrimony - 112 billion barrels of oil in the world's second-largest proven crude reserves.