Saboteurs Cut Iraqi Oil Exports, Test Government

CHIMO

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Wed Jun-16-04 01:20 AM
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Saboteurs Cut Iraqi Oil Exports, Test Government

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents cut nearly all of Iraq's oil exports, with two acts of sabotage shutting the main export gateway and stepping up pressure on Tuesday on Iraq's new government two weeks before a formal end to the U.S. occupation.

"There were two sabotage cases," Oil Minister Thamir Ghadhban said, confirming saboteurs blasted a pipeline feeding storage tanks at the southern city of Basra on the Gulf.
Local shipping agents said deliveries to Basra were cut off. One said the targeted line had been "seriously damaged." A second trunk line, though intact, was also closed, apparently for security checks.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=SG5MAFF2YEDT0CRBAELCFFA?type=topNews&storyID=5430839

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Wed Jun-16-04 01:21 AM
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1. all that oil! that precious, wonderful oil!

Edited on Wed Jun-16-04 01:21 AM by thebigidea

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