Iraqi pipeline blaze blamed on sabotage
An oil pipeline near the northern city of Kirkuk was on fire today and local officials said the blaze may have been caused by sabotage. In Mosul, US troops opened fire after an explosion near a military convoy, witnesses said.
Details about the fire, on a subsidiary line linking the Janbur oil fields near Kirkuk with the main pipeline in the region, were sketchy, said Adel al-Qazzaz, manager of the Northern Oil Company. But he said he believed sabotage was to blame.
