Oil exports halted in al-Basra because of twin resistance operations

Officials in the occupation authority in al-Basra announced that the exports of the Iraqi oil via al-Basra port will stop at least for two days following the attack attempt in which two sailors working with the occupation forces were killed and other four were injured.

British sources said that three boars driven by suicide bombers were intercepted in the last moments while trying to approach two oil pooling center in southern Iraq. Iraqi officials said that the attack did not inflect damage in the basic infrastructure of the port.