Water-main sabotage leaves Iraqi capital dry

Saboteurs blew up a water main in northern Baghdad, forcing engineers to cut off water to the capital and raising new fears that rebels were hitting Iraq’s infrastructure to slow its recovery.

The water-main bombing came yesterday as two oil fires raged out of control along an oil pipeline to Turkey, halting exports just days after they started. The first blaze appeared to be sabotage, a coalition spokesman said.