WORLD / Middle East
Insurgents bomb Iraqi oil pipeline, kill 3
(AP)
Updated: 2006-05-08 19:01
Insurgents bombed an Iraqi oil pipeline south of Baghdad, and a car bomb
and a shooting in the capital killed two Iraqi policemen and the driver
of bus carrying government employees to work on Monday, police said.
Iraqi police and U.S. soldiers secure the site following a car bomb
attack in Baghdad, Monday, May 8, 2006. A car bomb exploded near a police
patrol on Palestine street in eastern Baghdad, killing two policemen and
wounding 12 Iraqis. [AP]
New information also emerged about a bomb-making factory hidden in the
basement of a religious school near a major Sunni shrine in Baghdad that
had exploded on Sunday, killing one insurgent and wounding two, police
said.
Meanwhile, Australia, a member of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq,
announced that it will send additional soldiers to southern Iraq to
replace forces protecting a Japanese military reconstruction team in the
region.
The bombing of the pipeline occurred late Sunday near Mussayab city,
about 30 miles south of Baghdad, sending up a large plume of black smoke.
The pipeline carries oil from Dora refinery in Baghdad to Mussayab power
station, and police Col. Ahmed Mijwal said the attack had closed the
station.
In Baghdad, a car bomb exploded near a police patrol on Palestine street
in eastern Baghdad on Monday morning, killing two policemen and wounding
12 Iraqis: five policemen and seven civilians, said police Lt. Ahmed
Qassim.
In western Baghdad, suspected insurgents stopped a bus carrying Higher
Education Ministry employees to work, fatally shooting the driver and
wounding a policeman who was working on the bus as a guard, said police
Capt. Jamil Hussein.
Insurgents often try to prevent Iraqi citizens from cooperating with
their country's new democratically elected government and its defense
forces by attacking government workers and killing men who have been
recruited to Iraq's military and police forces.
On Sunday the U.S. military reported that one suspected insurgent was
killed and one wounded that day when their bomb-making factory exploded
in the basement of one of Baghdad's two more important Sunni Arab shrines.
But the U.S. command and Iraqi forces said Monday that their
investigation found one insurgent died and two were wounded in the
basement of the partially built al-Qadiriya religious school next door to
the shrine when the roadside bombs they were making exploded.
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