PKK claims responsibility of exploding the Iraqi pipeline in Turkey
Iraq-Turkey, Politics, 3/24/1999

The Turkish News agency "Deem" quoted a statement issued by the military wing of the Kurdistani Workers Party (PKK) led by Abdullah Ocalan as saying that the party's fighters carried out the explosion operation in the Turkish part of the Iraqi oil pipeline last Sunday.

On Monday, an oil source in Baghdad stressed that oil pumping in the pipeline was suspended due to the explosion, which resulted in a large fire.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the UN in Baghdad announced on Tuesday that the UN sanctions committee approved so far some 395 Iraqi requests to purchase oil equipment at a total cost of $237 million.

John Mills, the spokesman for the oil-for-food program said in a statement issued in New York, a copy of which reached Baghdad, that requests for oil equipment frozen by the sanctions committee reached 94 with an estimated value of $28 million.

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