Bombing takes out Iraq-Turkey pipeline
Less than two weeks after it recovered from a month-long outage, Iraq's northern export pipeline has suffered yet another bombing.
A giant fire blazes after a pipeline near Kirkuk was bombed on Feb. 15, 2005. Since then, pipelines in northern Iraq have remained vulnerable to attacks. (MARWAN IBRAHIM/AFP/Getty Images)
KIRKUK - A bombing attack crippled Iraq's northern oil export pipeline Sunday, less than two weeks after it recovered from a month-long outage.
"It was a relatively big attack," said a senior official at the North Oil Company (NOC), the state firm in charge of most northern oil production as well as the Iraq-Turkey Pipeline. "This attack caused a stoppage of the flow of oil from Kirkuk to Ceyhan."
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