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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (20973)	6/25/2003 6:19:38 AM
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Blast damages oil pipeline northwest of Baghdad 25 minutes ago Add Mideast - AFP to My Yahoo! BARWANAH, Iraq (AFP) - An explosion damaged an oil pipeline 250 kilometres (155 miles) northwest of Baghdad which supplied a refinery and a power plant in the capital, an official from Iraq (news - web sites)'s Northern Oil Co. told AFP. "The explosion was at 01:30 on Tuesday morning (2130 GMT Monday) just 50 metres (yards) from the village," said Rassim Abdiul Khader Shaker. The 30-inch pipeline near Barwaneh links the northern city of Kirkuk with the Hadithah pumping station to the west. US-led coalition efforts to get the country back up and running have already been hit by suspected sabotage blasts on three other fuel pipelines in the last two weeks. Although the US authorities have yet to account for the explosions -- one of which on the main oil export pipeline from Kirkuk in the north to Turkey has delayed oil shipments -- Iraqi officials have said they were deliberate attacks. A blast Saturday night to a gas pipeline near Hit, west of Baghdad, was said to have contributed to a day-old power blackout in Baghdad.

To: T L Comiskey who wrote (20973)	6/25/2003 6:43:39 AM
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U.K. Demands Arrest of Iraqis in Attack MAJAR AL-KABIR, Iraq (AP) - British forces gave civilian leaders in this town 48 hours to hand over gunmen who killed six British military police after a violent demonstration that left four Iraqis dead, a municipal official said Wednesday. British military officials were meeting with seven members of the city's administrative council in the nearby town of Amarah, seeking the killers' surrender, said Qassem Nimeh, an official in the mayor's office in Majar al-Kabir. Townspeople furious over the deaths of four civilians during a demonstration Tuesday in this southern Iraqi town shot and killed six British military police, local police said Wednesday. The violent demonstration was the second in two days, apparently sparked by British soldiers' searches for heavy weapons in homes, said Abu Zahraa, a 30-year-old local vendor. ``This angered the people because they went into women's rooms,'' Zahraa said. ``The people considered it an invasion of privacy.'' Armed Iraqis killed two of the British soldiers at the scene of the demonstration - in front of the mayor's office - and then stormed a police station and killed four other British soldiers after a two-hour gunbattle, a pair of Iraqi policemen said. ``We hope that we'll be able to bring those who are guilty of these attacks to justice,'' L. Paul Bremer, the top U.S. official in Iraq, told reporters in Baghdad on Wednesday. Tuesday's violence sparked a review of Britain's forces in southern Iraq, with Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon saying Wednesday that Britain could send more soldiers to Iraq and require them to resume wearing helmets and body armor - like their American counterparts. ``My absolute priority is the safety and security of British forces. Already, an urgent review is under way to ensure their safety,'' Hoon told British Broadcasting Corp. radio. ``Depending on the results of that review ... we have significant forces available should it be necessary. Many thousands, certainly.'' A second incident on Tuesday also involved a fierce firefight between Iraqis and British troops occupying southern Iraq. That gunbattle wounded eight British soldiers, three of them seriously.