Iraqi rebels blow up oil pipeline

IRAQI insurgents blew up an oil pipeline and fired on gasoline storage tanks, as US troops searched for rebels and weapons in strongholds of captured dictator Saddam Hussein.

US soldiers raided homes shortly after midnight in Fallujah, a flashpoint in the so-called Sunni Triangle where resistance to the US-led occupation has been fiercest.

Iraqi journalists reported similar raids in other areas where support for Saddam has been strong, including Samarra, 75 miles north of Baghdad, and Rawah, near the western border with Syria.