Oil police killed along export pipeline, workers kidnapped
In a bloody day in Iraq, six Oil Police members were killed and two drilling company workers were kidnapped amid widespread bomb attacks.
Iraqi forces patrol during a military operation in the Hamrin mountains area near the Iraqi-Iranian border, June 11, 2013. Iraq forces said on Tuesday they had detained 156 suspected insurgents during operations to crack down on of al-Qaeda militants, the Naqshbandi army and the outlawed Baath party. Iraq is facing a surge in sectarian violence officials blame on Sunni Islamist insurgents determined to drag the country into a civil war. (MOHAMMED ADNAN/Iraq Oil Report)
KIRKUK - An Oil Police outpost guarding the Iraq-Turkey Pipeline (ITP) came under attack south of Mosul by gunmen who killed at least six officers.
The late Saturday night attack was the first of dozens of attacks over the following 24 hours, which included the Sunday kidnapping of two Iraqi Drilling Company workers in Kirkuk, and bombings that claimed more than 30 other lives in coordinated attacks throughout Iraq, including in predominantly Shiite areas and mostly south of Baghdad.
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