Oil pipelines explosions in the south reduced Iraqi exports to the one third
Iraq, Economics, 6/16/2004

For the second running day, Iraqi fighters attacked a procession for the occupation forces carrying contractors near Baghdad's airport and this resulted in killing many of them, while oil pipelines in southern Iraq were exposed to two attacks that resulted in reducing the exports to one third.

News reports quoted officials at the Iraqi southern oil company that two explosions hit oil pipelines in Hamadan area to the north of FAO and this led to minimizing oil exportation rate to the half and they held responsibility to the supporters of the toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida organization for this attack.

The news added quoting Iraqi oil sources that exports of oil of the south reduced from 1.7 million barrels daily to 500,000 barrels a day.

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