[Marxism] Saboteurs blow up oil export pipeline in southern Iraq

["Alain St-Amour" <alainstamour@xxxxxxxx>]

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Saboteurs blow up oil export pipeline in southern Iraq
USA Today
Posted 8/29/2004 6:47 AM     Updated 8/29/2004 7:13 AM

BASRA, Iraq (AP) ? Saboteurs blew up a pipeline in southern Iraq on Sunday in 
the latest attack targeting the country's crucial oil industry, a senior oil 
official said.

The explosion occurred in al-Radgha, about 30 miles southwest of Basra, an 
official at the state-run South Oil Co. said on condition of anonymity.

The pipeline, which connects the Rumeila oilfields with export storage tanks in 
the Faw peninsula, was ablaze after the attack and emergency workers were 
struggling to put the fire out, the official said.

Insurgents have launched repeated attacks on Iraq's vital oil industry in a bid 
to undermine the interim government and reconstruction efforts.

On Saturday, insurgents blew up another pipeline in the West Qurna oilfields, 
about 90 miles north of Basra.

Also Saturday, a domestic oil pipeline in Nahrawan, a desert region 20 miles 
east of Baghdad, was ablaze, though oil officials could not confirm if the fire 
was the result of sabotage. The pipeline carries oil to the Dora refinery near 
the capital.

It was unclear how the latest attack would affect exports out of the south, 
which have already fallen to about 900,000 barrels a day ? about half the 
normal average of 1.8 million barrels a day ? after an attack Wednesday on a 
cluster of pipelines linked to the Rumeila oilfields.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-08-29-iraq-pipeline_x.htm
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