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Opposition forces target oil installations



Hello,
to all you campaigners for the lifting of "non-military sanctions": let's hope that the GOI has enough arms left to conquer this bunch of criminals.
"After this attack, over 300 oil workers were arrested for interrogation. All workers of Kurdish and Turkoman ethnic origin were dismissed," the article says.
Could that be perhaps a good pretext for Bush to invade the country, because some human rights have been violated? And isn't it a good idea for the next report of AI?
 
Greetings.
Dirk Adriaensens
 
BAGHDAD: Opposition forces target oil installations 12/02/2002 18:12:35
Forces opposed to the regime of President Saddam Hussein have carried out six acts of sabotage against Iraqi oil installations since last August, the opposition Iraqi National Congress said Tuesday.

The London-based INC said two targets at the Biji refinery, 190 kilometres (120 miles) north of Baghdad, were "hit by missiles resulting in a huge blaze" on January 23

"After this attack, over 300 oil workers were arrested for interrogation. All workers of Kurdish and Turkoman ethnic origin were dismissed," it said.

Two explosions rocked the Biji refinery, Iraq's largest, on January 17, and "one of the key pieces of equipment in the refinery and products unit was sabotaged," it added.

The INC added that between August and November 2001, a series of explosions hit pipelines in the northern Kirkuk oilfields and the southern Basra province, as well as a truck-fuelling stop in western Iraq.

 
AFP
http://www.worldoil.com/news/newsstory.asp?ref=http://62.172.78.184/feeds/worldoil/new/article_e.asp?energy24=247328

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