[Excerpt: "A massive fire resulted, halting the flow of oil to Daura," Assem said, adding that the blast struck near the town of Yusufiyah in the so-called triangle of death just south of the capital..."It stopped the output of refined products which had only just resumed after a 17-day break resulting from previous sabotage...."The same evening, near Baiji, saboteurs struck another pipeline supplying refined products from the refinery there to storage reservoirs around Baghdad."] _http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11734447%255E1702,00.html_ (http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11734447%5E1702,00.html) Al-qaeda ordered Iraq oil hit >From correspondents in Baghdad December 19, 2004 IRAQ'S key oil infrastructure suffered five attacks in 24 hours after a voice identified as Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden ordered followers to sabotage the West's key oil supplies. An oil ministry spokesman condemned the upsurge in "terrorist acts" which he said were depriving Iraqis of essential fuel and the country of desperately needed export revenues. There were two blasts on pipelines Saturday and three late Friday, all of them in restive Sunni Arab areas around the capital or in north-central Iraq, officials said. In the first of Saturday's attacks, saboteurs blew up a section of the pipeline feeding oil from the northern Kirkuk fields to the distribution hub of Baiji, an oil facilities protection officer confirmed. The section near Fatha, 85 kilometres west of the oil city of Kirkuk, had already been hit on Friday, virtually eliminating its flow.
An hour later, at around 8.30am (7.30pm AEST), a second blast hit the pipeline linking Baiji with Baghdad's Daura refinery, network director Majid Mamnum said. The section breached was at Dijla, 20 kilometres north of the insurgent stronghold of Samarra, Mamnum said. On Friday evening, saboteurs hit another pipeline supplying crude from the southern Basra fields to the Daura refinery, oil ministry spokesman Jihad Assem said. "A massive fire resulted, halting the flow of oil to Daura," Assem said, adding that the blast struck near the town of Yusufiyah in the so-called triangle of death just south of the capital. "It stopped the output of refined products which had only just resumed after a 17-day break resulting from previous sabotage. "The same evening, near Baiji, saboteurs struck another pipeline supplying refined products from the refinery there to storage reservoirs around Baghdad." That attack was claimed by an Islamic militant group loyal to bin Laden, the Al-Qaeda Organization of Mesopotamia, in a leaflet distributed in Baiji. The leaflet said sabotage had been carried out in response to Thursday's Internet message from the Al-Qaeda "supreme commander." "These terrorist acts, which coincide with the threats from bin Laden, are aimed at depriving ordinary people of fuel so that the crisis worsens," the oil ministry spokesman charged. "They are costing Iraqis hundreds of millions of dollars." Agence France-Presse enditem UNRESTRICTED [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
