Militants sabotage crucial Iraqi oil pipeline
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=531945
By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad
16 June 2004
Iraq's main oil export terminal was hit by sabotage yesterday,
delivering a further blow to the interim government just two weeks
before the official transfer of power.
In the second attack on vital oil supplies in two months, insurgents
also attacked two oil pipelines in southern Iraq, cutting exports from
the south by half, officials said. The oil price surged a dollar a
barrel following news of the bombings which are keeping up the
pressure on the occupying powers.
Patrick Cockburn
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