Oil worker shot in attempted highway robbery

Despite the presence of a security protection team, an armed gang attacked a convoy carrying international oil workers to the Basra airport.

Workers at Fakka oilfield, near Amara in Missan province, on Dec. 8, 2009. (ATEF HASSAN/Reuters)

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