Sabotage hits oil pipelines in northern, southern Iraq

Sabotage hits oil pipelines in northern, southern Iraq in new export blow

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BASRA, Iraq (AFP) - Saboteurs set ablaze oil pipelines in both northern and southern Iraq, threatening to further cripple the country's ailing economy and send world prices back upwards.

The attack on a pipeline near the southern port city of Basra came less than two days after the country's key revenue earner was dealt a serious blow by another act of sabotage in the north which halted all exports of Kirkuk crude.

Saboteurs also blew up a secondary pipeline serving the northern oil centre of Kirkuk on Saturday afternoon, a security official said.

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"Exports will be affected but it's not immediately possible to quantify the losses," he added.
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Forces: U.S. & Coalition/Casualties
There have been 1,110 coalition deaths, 979 Americans, 65 Britons, six Bulgarians, one Dane, two Dutch, one Estonian, one Hungarian, 19 Italians, one Latvian, 10 Poles, one Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and eight Ukrainians, in the war in Iraq as of September 2, 2004 (Graphical breakdown of casualties). The list below is the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose families have been notified of their deaths by each country's government. At least 6,916 U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon. The Pentagon does not report the number of non-hostile wounded. This list is updated regularly.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/

And the beat goes on ...

:eyes: :evilgrin: :grr:

I guess this is an example of the 'catastrophic success' * was talking about.

Note error in headline.

he Iraqi South Oil company announced on Thursday it is planning to increase its oil exports from the southern ports to two million barrels daily within the five coming days.

The media spokesman for the company, Samir Jasem, said that the exportation pace via Basra and Khour al-Amya ports on the Gulf is currently witnessing stability to between 1.6 to 1.7 million barrels daily.

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