UPDATE: Ninewa pipeline bombed for the fifth time
The fuel pipeline from Baiji to Ninewa has been bombed twice in the past two days, and five times in the last three weeks. The Oil Ministry is pointing fingers at local security forces.
An Iraqi uses his mobile phone to take pictures of a burning oil pipeline running from the Baiji refinery on Sept. 18, 2007. (SABAH AL-BAZEE/Reuters)
UPDATE: The fuel pipeline from Baiji to Ninewa was bombed again Monday night - the second time in two days, and the fifth in three weeks. At 11 p.m., just four hours after Oil Ministry crews had finished repairs following Sunday's bombing, an explosion tore through the pipeline, causing pumping to stop. The story below was published on Monday, before the fifth bombing.
Iraq's Oil Ministry cast blame on local forces for security breaches, as saboteurs carried out two more attacks on the pipeline that delivers fuel from the Baiji refinery to Ninewa province.
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