Fresh wave of sabotage and violence takes toll on Iraq

IRAQ’S northern oil pipeline to Turkey will not reopen for at least two weeks, the US army said yesterday.

Saboteurs blew up part of the key export route, dealing a heavy blow to the country’s hopes of a speedy post-war recovery.

Meanwhile, attacks on the US-led forces occupying Iraq since they ousted Saddam Hussein continued, with a Danish soldier and two Iraqis killed in the south and two US soldiers wounded and another Iraqi killed in the north.