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Sources: Militants blow up oil field equipment in Iraq
01/12/2012 20:38
"Iraq's gate," Nineveh - police sources said on Thursday that the armed men in army uniforms detonated a warehouse of equipment belonging to the national oil company Alanjulih near an oil field in northern Iraq.
The sources said the attack, which occurred on Wednesday night from a field near the star, about 330 kilometers north of Baghdad in restive Nineveh province, causing no injuries.
Company Sonangol and got Alanjulih contracts to develop oil fields and star Qayyarah in late 2009, when Iraq signed with international companies to develop reserves blister. The fields are located near the city of Mosul, an area known as a stronghold of al-Qaeda.
Police sources said the gunmen ordered the guards to leave the equipment yard and planted explosives that destroyed nine machines.
Police have detained ten of the guards for questioning.
A senior source said the army authorities believe that the guards involved in the attack.
The decline in violence in Iraq after that peaked in 2006 and 2007 in the sectarian conflict, but the attacks are still a daily routine.
Tensions in Iraq in recent weeks after he moved Shi'ite-led government to arrest the Sunni Vice-President of Iraq, raising fears of renewed sectarian violence.
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01/12/2012 20:38
"Iraq's gate," Nineveh - police sources said on Thursday that the armed men in army uniforms detonated a warehouse of equipment belonging to the national oil company Alanjulih near an oil field in northern Iraq.
The sources said the attack, which occurred on Wednesday night from a field near the star, about 330 kilometers north of Baghdad in restive Nineveh province, causing no injuries.
Company Sonangol and got Alanjulih contracts to develop oil fields and star Qayyarah in late 2009, when Iraq signed with international companies to develop reserves blister. The fields are located near the city of Mosul, an area known as a stronghold of al-Qaeda.
Police sources said the gunmen ordered the guards to leave the equipment yard and planted explosives that destroyed nine machines.
Police have detained ten of the guards for questioning.
A senior source said the army authorities believe that the guards involved in the attack.
The decline in violence in Iraq after that peaked in 2006 and 2007 in the sectarian conflict, but the attacks are still a daily routine.
Tensions in Iraq in recent weeks after he moved Shi'ite-led government to arrest the Sunni Vice-President of Iraq, raising fears of renewed sectarian violence.
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