From The BBC, 11/24/03:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3233320.stm
North Iraq hit by fresh violence
An important gas pipeline has been blown up in northern Iraq.
The resulting fire was so huge the glow could be seen in the night sky
in the town of Kirkuk, 30 kilometres (20 miles) away, say reports.
The attack is expected to cause disruption to production at Iraq's
largest oil refinery, officials say.
It comes amid an upsurge in violence in the north of the country, in
which two US troops were reportedly killed on Sunday by an angry lynch
mob.
Eyewitnesses in Mosul, said two US soldiers were shot, then dragged
from their car in broad daylight and beaten with bricks and stabbed by
a group of young Iraqi men.
Brutal attack
Some witnesses said the two soldiers had had their throats cut, but
the US military would not confirm this.
"We will not be ghoulish about this," Brigadier General Kimmitt told
reporters in Baghdad.
"We have an ongoing investigation. It is not our policy to discuss the
specifics of injuries sustained by soldiers and this is not a good
place to discuss these kind of things."
The dead men, from the 101st Airborne Division, had been on patrol in
Mosul, 400 kilometres (250 miles) north of Baghdad.
The town had been considered fairly peaceful.
But there are fears that the Iraqi insurgency is spreading northwards,
widening from its stronghold in the so-called Sunni Triangle in
central Iraq.
In the latest attack in Mosul, a US soldier was injured on Monday by a
roadside blast.
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