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| Iraq Violence Kills 13 as Major Oil Pipeline Bombed |
| 2013-08-14 |
| [An Nahar] Attacks in Iraq killed 13 people on Tuesday, including four who died in a blast targeting Shiite worshippers, while gunnies bombed a major oil pipeline, halting exports, officials said. The attacks are the latest in a surge in violence that security forces have failed to curb, despite carrying out major operations against gunnies said to have resulted in scores of arrests, including 82 on Monday. In the deadliest attack on Tuesday, a boom-mobile went kaboom!after midday prayers at Al-Zahraa husseiniyah, a Shiite place of worship south of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , killing four people and wounding 14. Militants have carried out attacks on both Sunni and Shiite mosques this year, raising fears of a return to all-out sectarian conflict in Iraq, which peaked in 2006-2007 and killed tens of thousands of people. In the northern province of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... another boom-mobile killed three police, while bombings also killed a soldier, a Sahwa anti-al-Qaeda fighter and two civilians in Salaheddin province, north of the capital And in Nineveh province, also in north Iraq, gunnies rubbed out a former soldier and a civilian. Militants also bombed a major pipeline carrying oil from northern Iraq to Turkey, near the town of Albu Jahash in Nineveh province. The attack halted exports via the pipeline, a bigwig from the North Oil Company said, adding that production was still continuing, but the oil was being stored. Repairing the pipeline, which runs from the northern Iraqi oil hub of Kirkuk to the port of Ceyhan in Turkey, is expected to take between one and three days, the official said. The attacks came a day after bombs targeting a cafe, a football field and a market in areas north of Storied Baghdad killed 28 people. The interior ministry on Monday announced the arrest of 82 suspected gunnies in Salaheddin and Diyala provinces, 56 of them at an alleged al-Qaeda training camp. |
| Posted by:Fred |