Near Baghdad, oil pipeline was blown up

To the south of Baghdad, unknown people undermined a section of the oil pipeline. The explosive device worked on Wednesday evening on a branch connecting the processing plant in a suburb of the Ed-Dora capital with the El Musab thermal power station, police representatives said on Thursday.

After the explosion, a fire arose on the highway. When fire brigades arrived at the scene, fire was opened from automatic weapons - two firefighters received injuries.

According to the official data of the Ministry of Oil, only in 2005 due to sabotage directed against oil infrastructure, the Iraq economy lost $ 6.25 billion, ITAR-TASS reports.

Last year, oil facilities were attacked by the militants 186 times, as a result of which 47 specialists were killed providing the work of the industry, as well as about 100 employees of law enforcement agencies engaged in security.

Deliveries of "black gold" abroad are given about 90 percent of the income in the state budget of Iraq. They are carried out along the two routes: the south - through the bass and nearby the lesser terminal of the choir al -Amaya and the north - from Kirkuk through the Turkish port Jahan.

Due to frequent sabotage after the overthrow of the Saddam Hussein regime, the Kirkuk-Jahan oil pipeline did not work for most of the time. If the southern oil fields suffer mainly from small capacities and numerous technical problems due to the long -outed infrastructure, then in the north, oil pipelines become objects of militants' attacks almost daily.

The Washington Post: 1300 people died in Iraq in Iraq

The Washington Post claims that after the explosion of the Shiite mosque in Samarra , 1300 people died in Iraq.

The number given by the American newspaper is three times higher than the official data presented by the US Army command in Iraq. The Washington Post refers to information obtained from morgues and Iraqi hospitals. At the same time, the Iraq police believes that 1020 people became victims of violence for this period, notes Newsru Israel .

According to The Washington Post, data on abductions and murders, which are supposedly made by the followers of the extremist Shiite leader of the Muktada of ASDra, were still not presented, who probably decided to take revenge on the Sunni for attack on the mosque in this way.