IRAQ: SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS TWO CIVLIAN AND WOUND THREE/ OIL PIPELINE ATTACKED NEAR KIRKUK/ NINE SUSPECTED TERRORISTS ARRESTED AT IRAQI BORDER

Record ID: 344881

  • Title: IRAQ: SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS TWO CIVLIAN AND WOUND THREE/ OIL PIPELINE ATTACKED NEAR KIRKUK/ NINE SUSPECTED TERRORISTS ARRESTED AT IRAQI BORDER
  • Date: 25th February 2005
  • Summary: (BN07) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (FEBRUARY 26, 2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE OF DAMAGED CIVILIAN CAR ON STREET NEAR THE SITE OF THE EXPLOSION 0.05 2. SLV MORE OF DAMAGED CAR 0.12 3. WIDE OF STREET NEAR THE EXPLOSION SITE/ U.S. HELICOPTER FLYING OVER/ U.S. HUMVEES ON THE SCENE 0.19 4. CLOSE UP OF THE U.S. HELICOPTER HOVERING AROUND 0.28
  • Embargoed: 12th March 2005 12:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, NEAR KIRKUK AND NAJAF, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA8GUNP15SFQJXI07MMLQQ4A4J3
  • Story Text: A suicide bomber in Baghdad kills at least two
    civilians and wounds three in an attack at U.S. military,



    A suicide bomber detonated his car at U.S. tanks,
    killing two civilians and injuring at least three others
    in Baghdad on Saturday (February 26).

    The attack took place in Al-Adil, a district in western
    Baghdad.

    The explosion wrecked number of civilian cars,
    witnesses said.

    "What happened is that I was driving on the highway
    road, when a car came near a tank and exploded. Due to the
    force of the explosion I found myself here in this place.

    (Question: inaudible) I did not see anything. I found
    myself here in this place," said witness Ghanawi Ali.

    Insurgents often attack U.S. convoys with car and
    suicide bombings in a relentless campaign to drive them out
    of the country.

    There was no immediate comment from the U.S. military
    on the attack.

    Near Kirkuk, saboteurs blew up an oil pipeline in the
    latest attack on Iraq's oil facilities.

    Oil officials said a bomb went off under a section of a
    pipeline running crude oil from Dibis (55 km) north of
    Kirkuk to the fields of the oil rich city. Security officials said
    they were trying to beef up
    protection of the pipeline system after insurgents
    threatened a newly formed protection force recruited from
    tribes in the area.

    Insurgent attacks on the cluster of pipelines, a
    crucial source of power for the capital, have slowed the
    country's recovery.

    The north accounts for 30 per cent of the country's oil
    output of 2.5 million barrels per day.

    The chief of the Iraqi border police said on Friday
    (February 25) Iraqi police had arrested nine suspected
    terrorists from neighbouring Arab countries while they were
    trying to cross into Iraq.

    "A number of terrorists tried to enter this country
    [Iraq]. After seeing them, we chased and then arrested them
    and sent them to the [police] headquarters," Hussein
    al-Ghazali told a news conference in Najaf.

    The Iraqi government claims to have captured large
    numbers of foreign fighters and has urged neighbouring
    countries to do more to help prevent infiltration of
    militants who cross into the war-ravaged country to fight
    U.S.-led coalition forces.

    U.S. officials had long blamed foreign fighters of
    playing a role in Iraq's 15-month-old insurgency.



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