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BAGHDAD, Sept. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Saboteurs on Saturday set fire are
fined oil products pipeline in northern Iraq as they kept up relentless
attacks on Iraq's oil production industry, Dubai-based al-Arabiya TV
reported.
The attacked pipeline, near a
region where the main crude export pipeline was blown up on Thursday, linked the northern
oil center of Kirkuk to the country's biggest oil refinery at Baiji,
some 200km north of Baghdad, the channel said.
The main crude export pipeline passes through Baiji before
continuing north to the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
It was still on fire after Thursday's attack, although
sand walls were being built around it.
Exported oil in northern Iraq were running at a postwar
high of 600,000 barrel per day before saboteurs attacked the
pipeline,which has been mostly shut since the US-led invasion.
Insurgents have launched repeated attacks on Iraq's vital oil industry
in a bid to undermine the interim government's reconstruction
efforts. Enditem
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