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North pipeline blast: offline fourth time in two months

Repair crews are scrambling to fix yet another interdiction in the northern crude export pipeline which is being blamed on sabotage.

BAGHDAD - For the fourth time since late October, Iraqi crews are repairing a crucial source of income after an explosion shut down the oil export pipeline serving crude to a port in Turkey.

The exact cause of the blast Saturday night is not known, but ministry and security officials have said it is "sabotage."

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