IRAQ: SABATEURS BLOW UP OIL PIPELINE NEAR SAMARRA

Record ID: 344966

  • Title: IRAQ: SABATEURS BLOW UP OIL PIPELINE NEAR SAMARRA
  • Date: 12th August 2005
  • Summary: (EU) NEAR SAMARRA, IRAQ (AUGUST 11, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. TS HUGE PLUMES OF BLACK SMOKE AND FIRE RISING FROM PIPELINE; PIPELINE ON FIRE (VARIOUS) 0.57 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 27th August 2005 13:00
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  • Location: NEAR SAMARRA, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA2333XIL4P2JW47CO5MBJJ3GHD
  • Story Text: Saboteurs blow up oil pipeline near Samarra, north
    of Baghdad in Iraq.



    Saboteurs blew up an oil pipeline linking two of
    Iraq's major refineries on Wednesday (August 11, 2005) near the
    restive Sunni city of Samarra north of Baghdad, setting it
    ablaze, police and oil sources said.

    The pipeline linking the Baiji refinery north of
    Baghdad to the Doura refinery in the capital.

    Attacks on Iraq's oil facilities have been mainly
    concentrated in Sunni Muslim areas of the north, which
    produce around 400,000 barrels per day compared to 800,000
    barrels per day of exports before the war in 2003.


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