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Murad SezerlThe Associated Press
Two days after oUexports to Turkey resumed, fires raged along a pipeline near the northern Iraqi town of Baijion Sunday.
Day of sabotage and violence in Iraq
Oil and water pipelines and a prison are targets of attack
Reuters
BAGHDAD: A fresh wave of sabotage
and violence took its toll on Iraq over
the weekend as a second blaze hit a crucial
oil export pipelin~ a water pipeline
was blown up and six Iraqis were killed
in a mortar attack on a Baghdad prison.
A Danish soldier was killed as he tried
to stop looters on Saturday night, and a
Reuters cameraman was shot and killed
on Sunday while working near the prison,
which is run by the U.S. authorities.
Iraq's crucial oil export pipeline to
Turkey, which saboteurs attacked two
days ago, was ablaze again on Sunday
after another blast. At the scene, an official
with the North Oil Company said it
bad been caused by an explosian on Saturday
night. The fire was near the site
of Friday's blaze which officials blamed
attributed to a bomb.
L. Paul Bremer 3rd, the U.S. administrator
in Iraq, said Sunday that the
country's tottering economy was losing
$7 million a day because of the attack on
the pipeline.
In the mortar attack on the prison,
which happened on Saturday night, the
U.S. military said six Iraqis bad been
killed and 59 wounded.
"Three mortar rounds impacted the
scene," a U.S. Army spokesman sa'id. supporters and foreign militant groups
"Three prisoners died on impact and for the sabotage of Iraq's infrastructure
three others died in hospital."
About 500 Iraqi detainees, including
and the attacks on U.S. forces that bave
.killed 60 American soldiers since President
common criminals. and suspected anti-
George W. Bush declared major
American guerrillas, are being held at combat over on May 1.
the Abu Ghraib prison, which was one Saboteurs blew up a water pipeline
of Saddam Hussein's most notorious serving the north of Baghdad on Sunday,
prisons. It was not clear who was be-' flooding streets with a cascade of water.
hind the attack. . "This was an act of sabotage," Assam
The Reuters cameraman, Mazen Othman, chief engineer for the area's
Dana, a 43-year-old Palestinian who bad
worked for the news agency for a decade,
was filming outside the prison when he
water system, said at the scene. "It does
not hurt the Americans, it hurts ordinary
Iraqi people."
was shot, witnesses said. A spokesman Sabotage of fuel pipelines, theft of
for the U.S.-led administration said an power cables and frequent breakdowns
investigation was underway. Dana's of deteriorating equipment have undermined
death brings to 17the number of journa-'
lists or their aSsistants who have died in attempts to rebuild Iraq's ram-
shackle oil industry, restore basic services
Iraq since the war began on March 20.
and revive the economy. .'
In southern Iraq, the Danish soldier The U.S.-led administration says it
was killed in a gun battle with Iraqi has a conservative oil revenue forecast:
looters who had been stealing power of$12 billion for 2004. But if the Kirkûk:
lines. He was the first.,.f~ign soldier pipeline cannot be kept open and the:
not from the U.S. or British military to southern oilfields remain starved cr;
be killed in Iraq since the invasion that
toppled Saddam's government in April.
electricity, exports could fall well short ..:
Even if the target is met, officials saY,'
Major Ian Poole, spokesman for the the international community will bave!
British military in Basra, said two of the
Iraqis were also killed in the battle and
to come up with more than $5 billion in
aid at a donors' conference planned fOf'
the remaining six were arrested. Madrid in October, just to. keep the
Washington blames die-bard Saddam floundering economy afloat next year.
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