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floda Donating Member (296 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 05:47 PM
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Iraq North Oil Pipeline on Fire, Sabotage Blamed
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - An explosion ripped through a crude oil pipeline linking northern Iraqi fields on Tuesday, a North Oil company official said.
"It was probably sabotage," said the official, who asked not to be named.

Witnesses said fire was still raging in the pipeline running from Disi to a pumping station around the city of Kirkuk, 30 miles to the west.

Saboteurs blasted an oil pipeline feeding storage tanks at Basra in the Gulf, cutting exports by a third on Tuesday.

Iraqi leaders are fighting a wave of assassinations, bombings and sabotage by guerrillas who are trying to prove the new interim government cannot rule effectively after a June 30 handover of power.

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5430486

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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 05:58 PM
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1. how do they know that?
How do they know that the guerillas aren't protesting American occupation?

I'm not saying it's one or the other, or something else entirely, but I don't think these guys really know either.
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daleo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 06:06 PM
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2. The southern pipeline was hit today too.
Edited on Tue Jun-15-04 06:06 PM by daleo
Probably just coincidental meteor strikes.
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kalian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 06:28 PM
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3. Gee....what a coincidence that the pipeline to Haifa still works....
:eyes:
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Lefty48197 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 07:43 PM
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4. Better fill your tanks
Gas will go up 20 cents a gallon tonight.
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