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To: lurqer who wrote (38687)	3/2/2004 7:06:51 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Blast hits oil pipeline in nortern Iraq A large hit an oil pipelinenear the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk causing a huge fire but no casualties, police chief Turhan Yussef said. "The explosion happened at 11.15am (0615 AEDT). An explosive device was placed under the pipeline at Al-Riad, 35km west of Kirkuk," he said. The blast, which hit the main oil line leading to the Baiji refinery 200km north of Baghdad, caused a huge fire that was still burning at the time of Yussef's report. The oil city of Kirkuk is a hotbed of ethnic tensions among the Arab, Kurdish and Turkmen communities and attacks are regularly launched there on the police, US troops and oil lines. smh.com.au lurqer