- BAGHDAD (Reuters) -- An Iraqi
oil pipeline running between two refineries was on fire Friday after coming
under attack north of Baghdad, an official said.
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- "We have dispatched crews to put out the fire and
assess the damage," an oil official told Reuters.
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- Reuters television footage showed a section of the pipeline
ripped apart and on fire on the outskirts of Samarra, a Sunni Muslim city
around 100 km north of Baghdad.
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- The pipeline runs from the Dora refinery near Baghdad
north to the Baiji plant through al-Jazeera, the Sunni area between the
Tigris and Euphrates rivers where most attacks against the U.S.-led occupation
forces have come.
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- Iraqi refineries have been raising output in the last
two months in an effort to beat petrol shortages.
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- Sabotage has focused on the north and targeting Iraq's
internal network, running between oil fields, refineries, and storage facilities,
and the country's export pipeline to Turkey, which has been shut since
the war.
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- A recent attack on a pipeline near the holy Shi'ite city
of Kerbala raised fears that sabotage was spreading south.
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- - Reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Baghdad newsroom
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