Northern oil pipeline, police attacked
Insurgents bombed the already crippled northern export pipeline and attacked the security forces trying to protect it.
An Oil Police officer leaves the site of a bombed oil pipeline near Kirkuk in July 2006. (MARWAN IBRAHIM/AFP/Getty Images)
Insurgents blew another hole into the Iraq-Turkey Pipeline early Tuesday morning, followed hours later by an attack on an Oil Police patrol, killing one officer.
Violence has plagued the northern oil export route in particular and the nation as a whole. Thousands of Iraqis have been killed over the past four months by coordinated bombings, most claimed by Al-Qaida, whose resurgence has created the most deadly time for civilians since the sectarian bloodletting of 2005 to 2007.
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