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Bombs Kill 58 in Iraq, Including 14 in Oil-Producing Region
A series of bomb attacks killed 34 people in Iraq, including more than a dozen in the northern oil region of Kirkuk, Deputy Health Minister Khamees al-Saad said.
Another 327 people were wounded in the blasts, al-Saad said in a phone interview from Baghdad. Seven recruits were slain in a suicide car bombing and 17 injured while waiting outside the police headquarters of state-run North Oil Co. in Kirkuk, Aywa Salah, a North Oil police colonel, said by phone.
Iraq has struggled to prevent attacks against civilian and government targets since U.S. forces withdrew at the end of last year. The oil-export pipeline from Kirkuk has been a frequent target of sabotage since the 2003 invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.
In Kirkuk, production and exports weren’t affected because today’s blasts took place outside the company’s headquarters, Oil Police Colonel Ghanim al-Quraishi said in a telephone interview from Kirkuk. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, according to North Oil’s police.
Iraq, the largest producer after Saudi Arabia in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, pumps crude oil from fields near Kirkuk for export through a pipeline to the port of Ceyhan, Turkey. Kirkuk lies adjacent to Iraq’s semi- autonomous Kurdish region and is claimed by Kurdish authorities, though the central government in Baghdad controls the city.
A separate attack in the Tuz Khormato district killed three people, while two others died in a blast in the al-Haweeja district, police in Kirkuk said in an e-mailed statement. Two people were killed and an additional 70 injured by blasts near the Ministry of Interior’s investigation department in the province, according to Kirkuk police.
Fourteen people were killed and 60 wounded in the city of Amara in the southeast, Farhan al-Musawi, head of the security committee in the provincial council of Maisan, said in a phone interview.
2 Comments on "Bombs Kill 58 in Iraq, Including 14 in Oil-Producing Region"
Arthur on Sun, 9th Sep 2012 11:42 pm
Sunnis attacking Shi’its. Three tribes forced to live in one country is asking for trouble. Iraq is an artificial country from the drawing bard, with borders defined by western colonial powers. Such a country can only be held together by a dictator, like Saddam or Tito or USSR communist party. Remove the dictator and the country falls apart. Multiculturalism therefor is a vile, evil genocidal ideology and never works. As soon as the majority tribe is losing numbers, growing competing tribes/groups with a different religious or ethnic identity smell their chance and start to make demands. Next on the program is conflict, civil war, ethnic cleansing and land grab. Iraq is in the process of falling apart, Bagdad will turn to the Iranian sphere of influence, Kirkuk will be the hotbed of Kurdish nationalism and the Sunnis will turn to Turkey for protection.
But the Mother of all Ethnic Conflict will be the West itself in the coming years. Expect hundreds more Breivik types to rise in the US and Western Europe. In Tunesia it was a single desperate fruit salesman, who set himself on fire causing a nation wide uprising. In Britain last year the shooting of a single ‘ethnic’ caused another nationwide ethnic uprising that took days to quell. In France in the socalled Banlieus a simuilar situation is brewing. The declining economies everywhere will heat the situation further as the western states will have ever less money to buy off differences and civil unrest. Flash mobs will be the new normal.
BillT on Mon, 10th Sep 2012 12:23 am
How much oil will be flowing out of Iraq in the next few years? Will it be measurable? We shall see.