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Saboteurs knock out Iraq's northern export pipeline
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(6/9/2004 - OGI: Cairo) For the second time in 24 hours, anti-US occupation
guerillas have today struck the Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil export pipeline west of
the Kirkuk oil production area in northern Iraq. Saboteurs destroyed a large
section of the pipeline with one or more bombs placed on the line about 80
km west of Kirkuk. The early morning explosion rocked the entire area and
sent huge columns of smoke rising over the desert region. The pipeline
continues to burn out of control now, more than ten hours after the bombing,
according to Iraq Northern Oil Company fire marshall Jumaa Ahmad.
Last night, guerillas attacked a section of the pipeline spur that feeds
fuel oil to Iraq's Baiji refinery about 200 km north of Baghdad, and that
segment of the line continues to be blazing, with firefighters trying to
extinguish it. And on Sunday another part of the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline was
hit by grenades that detonated along several points, causing additional
damage. This followed a major sabotage of the southern export pipeline in
May on the Faw Peninsula near the Persian Gulf loading area and another
bombing of the northern line at Dibis.
The Northern Oil Company is currently laying a new pipeline parallel to the
present one that will replace it because the numerous times it has been
bombed has left it unreliable.
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