IRAQ: INSURGENTS CLASH WITH IRAQI POLICE AND U.S. SOLDIERS AS OIL FIRES BURN AND MORTAR ATTACK KILLS SIX

Record ID: 344855

  • Title: IRAQ: INSURGENTS CLASH WITH IRAQI POLICE AND U.S. SOLDIERS AS OIL FIRES BURN AND MORTAR ATTACK KILLS SIX
  • Date: 17th November 2004
  • Summary: (EU) BUHRIZ (60 KM NORTHEAST BAGHDAD) , IRAQ (NOVEMBER 15, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. SLV TWO MASKED MEN CARRYING MACHINE GUN AND ROCKET PROPELLED GRENADE; THREE MASKED GUNMEN; MASKED GUNMEN FIRING ROCKET PROPELLED GRENADES (RPGs) 2. MASKED GUNMEN OPENING FIRE USING MACHINE GUN; MORE OF MASKED MAN FIRING RPG (6 SHOTS) 0.35 3. SLV POLICE CARS ON FIRE; MV MASKED MAN FIRES MORTAR; SLV FLAMES BEHIND TREES 0.58 4. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) MASKED GUNMEN SAYING: "We destroyed five cars of the Iraqi National Guards and police, those collaborators, we will take revenge of them (Iraqi forces). " 1.13 5. SLV MAN STAMPING ON MILITARY HELMET 1.20 (EU) 60 KM WEST OF KIRKUK , IRAQ (NOVEMBER 15, 2004) (REUTERS) 6. SLV OIL PIPELINE ON FIRE (6 SHOTS) 2.16 (EU) KHABAZA NEAR KIRKUK , IRAQ (NOVEMBER 15,2004) (REUTERS) 7. LV OIL WELLS ON FIRE (2 SHOTS) 2.29 (EU) BAGHDAD , IRAQ (NOVEMBER 15, 2004) (REUTERS) 8. MV PEOPLE STANDING AT SITE WHERE MORTARS HIT, DAMAGED CAR; SCU CRATER ON GROUND; MV DAMAGE INSIDE THE CAR (4 SHOTS) 2.51 9. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) IBRAHIM HAMADI DOURA RESIDENT SAYING: "Until now we have six killed and some of the wounded are in a serious condition so the number may well increase." 0.58 10. SCU INTERIOR DAMAGED CAR; SLV PEOPLE STANDING BESIDE DAMAGED CAR (3 SHOTS) 3.19 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 2nd December 2004 12:00
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  • Location: BUHRIZ/60 KM WEST OF KIRKUK/KHABAZA NEAR KIRKUK/BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVADI5M11ODIYUYG5CQMO4WE1QP0
  • Story Text: Insurgents clashed with Iraqi police and U.S.

    soldiers in the northeastern town of Buhriz as oil fires
    burned and a mortar attack in Baghdad kills six.

    Insurgents clashed with Iraqi police and U.S.

    soldiers in the northeastern town of Buhriz (60 km north
    east Baghdad) on Monday (November 15, 2004). The gunmen stormed
    the police station using machine guns and rocket-propelled
    grenades, police said. A gunbattle ensued and four police
    cars were burned, police added.

    Reuters video footage shows masked gunmen firing
    rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) and cars on fire.

    "We destroyed five cars of the Iraqi National Guards
    and police, those collaborators, we will take revenge of
    them (Iraqi forces)," one of the gunmen told Reuters.

    Saboteurs blew up a section of an oil pipeline near
    the northern region of Kirkuk on Monday, while flames raged
    in four oil wells after a string of bombings the previous
    day witnesses said.

    An oil pipeline carrying oil to refineries in the city
    of Baiji was bombed at around 3:00 am about 60 kilometres
    (37 miles) west of Iraq's major oil producing city of
    Kirkuk.

    Meanwhile four oil wells, about 30 km west of Kirkuk
    were on fire. It was not clear how long they had been
    burning. Witnesses said that insurgents detonated four
    bombs near oil wells in Al-Khabbaza oil field on Sunday
    (November 14). The north produces 700,000 bpd (barrels per
    day) out of Iraq's output of 2.6 million bpd. Officials said last
    week that the line was pumping at
    about 500,000 barrels per day but officials at Iraq's
    Northern Oil Company would not comment on pumping rates on
    Monday.

    Near Baiji insurgents set fire to a storage tank at an
    oil pumping station along Iraq's main export pipeline to
    Turkey witnesses said.

    Saboteurs have mounted relentless attacks on Iraqi oil
    facilities, including pipelines and wells, since the Iraq
    war last year.

    In southern Baghdad six Iraqis were killed and several
    wounded in mortars attack on Monday. Women and children
    among those killed witnesses said.

    "Until now we have six killed and some of the wounded
    are in a serious condition so the number may well
    increase," Doura resident Ibrahim Hamadi said.

    The attack that destroyed several cars happened Monday
    morning in the Doura neighbourhood of Iraq. Insurgents have
    regularly used mortars to attack U.S. and Iraqi security
    forces bases.


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