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To: TigerPaw who wrote (211685)	11/13/2004 8:39:24 PM
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BAIJI, Iraq (Reuters) - Insurgents have taken to the streets of the oil centre of Baiji in northern Iraq and clashes have broken out with Iraqi security forces, according to witnesses reuters.co.uk Baiji is home to Iraq's biggest refinery. A pipeline network that includes the Iraq-Turkey export pipeline passes near the Sunni Muslim city. Security officials said they were trying to beef up protection of the pipeline system after insurgents threatened a newly formed protection force recruited from tribes in the area. "Many have left fearing for their lives, especially those on the lines between Baiji and Kirkuk," one official said. Reuters footage showed a pipeline that appeared to have been ripped apart by a bomb. Oil officials said it was a domestic pipeline running to the Dora refinery in Baghdad. Insurgent attacks against U.S.-backed government targets are mounting in the north, which accounts 30 percent of the country's oil output of 2.5 million barrels per day. Iraq's northern crude exports to Turkey have been intermittent since attacks on several pipelines last week.