- KIRKUK (AFP) -- A major attack
on the main pipeline connecting the oil fields of Kirkuk with the Turkish
port of Ceyhan yesterday has halted limited exports from northern Iraq,
a Northern Oil Company official said.
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- "An improvised explosive device was placed close
to a network of pipelines at the level of Al Fateha, west of Kirkuk, causing
a big explosion and huge fires that damaged the main pipeline running to
Ceyhan and stopped exports," said Mr Nasir Qassim, a logistics and
security official with the state-owned company.
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- The road connecting Kirkuk with the refineries in Beiji
to the west was cut off as emergency workers battled to extinguish the
raging flames, with Iraqi police and national guard units, and multinational
troops securing the area.
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