Senior pipeline official killed in Kirkuk
Two senior northern oil officials have now been assassinated since late June.
Gas flares burn at the Kirkuk oil field on Jan. 06, 2010. (MARWAN IBRAHIM/AFP/Getty Images)
KIRKUK - Saad Ali Hussein al-Bayati, the head of the Iraqi Oil Pipelines Company northern division and a member of the North Oil Company (NOC) board, was assassinated on Monday near the Kirkuk oil storage facility.
Two senior NOC officials, a senior Interior Ministry official and Kirkuk Police Chief Sarhad Qadir confirmed the killing.
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