Newly-repaired Iraq pipeline blown up

Attackers have blown up a pipeline 60km west of Kirkuk, just a day after repairs to the route connecting the lucrative oil field to a major refinery in Baiji.



Northern Oil Company fireman Abd Allah Hamad Ali confirmed the morning attack on Sunday.



"The pipeline was only just repaired yesterday, but it has been attacked again." Firemen and police were putting out the blaze, he said.



Oil exports from Kirkuk to Turkey have been shut down by incessant attack

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/33A6936F-7BC1-4D50-833C-0FBB6658CD69.htm

It has nothing to do with "spreading democracy."

media whores?

And "fiery militant (choose one) islamic cleric".

But maybe it's because it's al Jazeera, and the writers are not
all hacks.

A mind-bogglingly accurate description.

It must be constantly toxic.

Oh. And WE TOLD THEM SO.

Taken from here ..... http://www.iags.org/iraqpipelinewatch.htm


2005
186. January 1 - attack on a pipeline from Kirkuk to Bayji.
187. January 1 - attack on a pipeline linking the southern cities of Karbala and Hillah, 46 miles south of Baghdad near the Musabayb power station.
188. January 7 - attack on gas pipeline 9 miles north of Tikrit.
189. January 8 - attack on an oil pipeline running from northern fields to Bayji in the Safra area, 43 miles southwest of Kirkuk. Two guard posts for an oil protection force were also blown up around the area and one guard was wounded.
190. January 8 - attack on a gas pipeline in the Fatha area near Bayji.
191. January 11 - 2:00am rocket attack on a gas pipeline that runs to Bayji near the Fatha production station.
192. January 11 - 6:30am attack on an oil pipeline that runs to Bayji in the Zegheitoun area, 35 miles southwest of Kirkuk. The pipeline had just been brought online on January 9th.
193. January 13 - 10:30pm attack on oil pipeline near Fatha.
194. January 14 - improvised explosive device detonated after midnight damaging an oil pipeline near Bayji and sparking a large fire.
195. January 14 - attack on a pipeline linking Kirkuk and the Daura refinery, near Samarra.
196. January 14 - rocket attack on pipeline complex near Fatha sparked large blaze.
197. January 17 - a bomb blew off a section of a pipeline in Fatha.
198. January 21 - 07:00am attack on pipeline in the al-Tharthar region 12 miles south of Samarra interrupted the flow of oil to the Bayji refinery.
199. February 2 - attack on oil pipeline connecting Bayji refinery to Daura refinery. The attack took place near Samarra.
200. Fabruary 5 - attack on a cluster of eight pipelines west of Samarra connecting the Bayji and Daura refineries.
201. February 6 - attack on pipeline carrying crude oil from Kirkuk to Bayji.
202. February 9 - attack on a gas pipeline before dawn in Fatha, about 15 miles north of Bayji.
203. February 9 - rocket attack on a pipeline linking Kirkuk to Bayji.
204. February 13 - 10:00pm attack on oil pipeline at the al-Dibbis oil field 31 miles north of Kirkuk.
205. February 14 - another attack on oil pipeline at al-Dibbis.
206. February 16 - attack on pipeline carrying crude from Kirkuk to Bayji near Fatha.
207. February 16 - attack on pipeline carrying crude from Kirkuk to Daura refinery.
208. February 16 - another attack on pipeline near Fatha.
209. February 16 - attack on pipeline in the Bajwan area, northwest of Kirkuk.
210. February 16 - gunmen killed Colonel Ibrahim Ahmed in charge of pipeline security. The killing took place at Ajeel west of Kirkuk.
211. February 25 - late night attack on a pipeline connecting the Dibbis oil fields with Kirkuk.
212. March 2 - 10pm attack on gas pipeline to Bayji near Al-Safra 30 miles west of Kirkuk caused the shutdown of two of the Bayji power station's four turbines.
213. March 3 - attack on a gas pipeline that links Kirkuk to Dibbis.
214. March 7 - attack on pipeline near Samarra, 60 miles northwest of Baghdad.
215. March 8 - 1pm attack on oil pipeline feeding Al-Daura refinery near Jorf al-Sakhr, 35 miles south of Baghdad.
216. March 9 - attack on oil pipeline feeding the Daura refinery in Jorf al-Sakhr, 46 miles south of Baghdad.
217. March 12 - attack on oil pipeline connecting Bayji and Daura in Al-Tharthar, near Samarra.
218. March 12 - Rocket-propelled grenades were launched at a pipeline running from Kirkuk to Daura.
219. March 15 - attack on oil pipeline in Fatha which carries crude from Kirkuk to Bayji.

the Bush Crime Family to steal their oil. They need more BushAmerican style democracy, then they will allow them to take whatever they want, just like we do over here.

" They never liked us anyhow. Let's drop the BIG one now !"

randy newman.

that'l learn em.

BushCo's effort to coopt the Irqi oil revenue is a flop. Until we are out of there, the pipelines will continue to be blown up. Really now, they are such easy targets and there is no way we have enough cannon fodder/troups to guard the pipelines.

you are right. The Iraq pipeline has been blown up on a regular basis. I believe the oil pipeline is 900 miles long. All of it is above-ground, so it's very vulnerable.

Iraqi resistance fighters have access to LOTS of explosive material (see: Al Qaqaa weapons dump that the US foolishly left unguarded).

Also, I've read that the US, in its desperate efforts to protect the pipeline, has contracted out the job to Iraqi tribes. They have given certain tribes the job of watching the pipeline. These contracts are jealously guarded and fought over.

The various tribes are not exactly good buddies with each other. In fact, they despise each other and would love to take a little more turf of Neighbor Bin Ali's contract.

I don't necessarily believe that tribal infighting is the cause of the blown up pipelines. I believe they are ALL united in wanting to "cut us off" so to speak. It just goes to show you they can't get anything right, to save their life. Just stupid fools waving dollar bills in peoples' faces. That's whatcha get, RumsFinished.

Let's see if Boeing will re negotiate that air tanker lease agreement.

I do not want Iraqi blood/oil.