Iraq oil export pipeline ablaze after attack

[floda]

KIRKUK, Iraq (AFP) - Suspected insurgents set ablaze the export pipeline from Iraq (news - web sites)'s northern oil fields in a new blow to the caretaker government's efforts to revive the country's main revenue earner.



A series of breaches were also reported on the network serving Iraq's southern fields but officials insisted they were small-scale and the result of pilfering rather than sabotage.


The explosion on the northern pipeline caused a complete halt to exports through the Turkish Mediterranean terminal of Ceyhan, an official with the state-owned Northern Oil Company said.


Company fire chief Issa Ahmed said crews had been sent to tackle the blaze which had engulfed a section of pipeline near Fatha, some 90 kilometres (60 miles) west of the oil centre of Kirkuk.



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[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Hey Chimp! Tough Ass!

"They hate us for the freedoms we enjoy here in this country" - chimpy
yesterday at a freeper owned aluminum parts manufacturing sweat shop someplace in Wisconsin.

[hatrack]

2. You know, this is one of those headlines you could learn to love over time

Kind of like "Mideast peace talks break down" or "(Name of star pitcher) faces disappointing season" - a perennial classic. ;-(

[hadrons]

3. how rude of them to disturb Mr Cheney's oil ....

[Halliburton]

4. Does anyone actually protect these pipelines?

This stuff has become a daily occurence.

[jmcgowanjm]

6. Prescient Question-Whoever delivers the oil is the winner n/t

[jmcgowanjm]

5. my window rattled its frame several times, Iraqi heartbeat that sign

that signals death.

But in truth, the authorities here are already cut off from the
rest of Iraq. Baquba is run by armed men. Insurgents
control Samara and Fallujah and Ramadi, and Muqtada
Sadr's militia control the centre of
Najaf.

IMHO-This is so out of control.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6493.htm

http://www.freearabvoice.org/Iraq/Report/report100.htm

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6492.htm

[Halliburton]

7. Sadr's militia controls Nasiriyah and Sadr City too...

On NBC News last night, they showed Sadr's militia in Nasiriyah destroying liquor stores and detaining people who have gone against their stringent islamic laws.

[jmcgowanjm]

8. Destroying liquor stores is going too far

Gotta have my rum.