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>From RHC World News for Sept.14, 2004; 1) "Huge Car Bomb Targets Baghdad's Main Police Headquarters" 2) "Oil Pipeline Junction Blown Up, Leaving Iraq in the Dark" ========================================== http://www.radiohc.cu http://www.radiohc.cu/homeing.htm Radio Havana Cuba Sept. 14, 2004 1) Huge Car Bomb Targets Baghdad's Main Police Headquarters Baghdad, September 14 (RHC)-- Forty-seven people were killed in a massive car bombing outside Baghdad's main police headquarters on Tuesday. The explosion came as another 12 policemen were killed in a roadside shooting north of the capital. The huge Baghdad explosion occurred in a busy district at the end of Haifa Street, where witnesses said dozens of young men were lining up at the police station and recruitment center. The explosives-rigged vehicle blew up, sending shrapnel flying through the air -- littering the area with bodies and pools of blood. A police officer told reporters that the car exploded just outside the main entrance of the al-Karkh police center, but the building escaped with only minor damage. One witness said that he had lined up with six friends to submit their job applications and that all six of his friends were killed by the blast. Interim Interior Minister Falah al-Naqib toured the scene of the attack and blamed the bombing on "terrorists" -- as angry area residents cursed US President George W. Bush, calling him the main terrorist. Meanwhile in Baquba, located north of Baghdad, 12 Iraqi policemen and one civilian were killed in gun attacks in the city, where 70 people were killed in a suicide bombing outside a police station in late July. =========================================== 2) Oil Pipeline Junction Blown Up, Leaving Iraq in the Dark Kirkuk, September 14 (RHC)-- Saboteurs blew up a junction where multiple oil pipelines cross the Tigris River in northern Iraq on Tuesday, setting off a chain reaction in power plants that left the entire country without power. Firefighters struggled to put out the blaze after the attack near Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad. Crude oil cascaded down the hillside into the Tigris River, as fire burned atop the water, fueled by the gushing oil. Beiji is the point where several oil pipelines converge, according to Lt. Col. Lee Morrison of the US Army Corps of Engineers. He said that one of the pipelines fed a local power plant and the explosion set off a fire that melted cables and led to the power outage. The 3 a.m. attack came soon after engineers had completed a two-month project to install two critical valves that had been damaged in an earlier sabotage attack. Morrison, commander of the northern office of Task Force Shield, based in Kirkuk, said that US soldiers dropped off barriers to guard the lines two days ago, but that Iraqi authorities had not yet erected them. Iraqi oil officials have been working to guard the country's vast oil infrastructure, deploying thousands of security officers to guard the lines. Insurgents, however, have largely acted with impunity -- and often with inside knowledge. Militants waging a 16-month insurgency against the occupation of their country have attacked oil pipelines and other infrastructure as part of a campaign to destabilize the interim government of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and drive occupation forces from the country. Allawi told reporters on Monday that sabotage of oil pipelines had already cost the country about two billion dollars in losses. [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/VL0olB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Peruuta ryhm�n tilaus l�hett�m�ll� s�hk�postia osoitteeseen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kominform2/ <*> 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/
