Explosions hit Iraq-Turkey Pipeline

April 5th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

The Kirkuk oil pipeline between Iraq and Turkey’s Mediterranean coast was hit by three separate blasts near the Southeastern province of Sirnak Idil district on Thursday.

The director of Iraq’s North Oil Co. said the pipeline was sabotaged, but a spokesman at the Turkish state-run pipeline company Botas, said that the cause of the blast is still being investigated.

Sabotage is common on oil and gas pipelines into Turkey from Iran and Iraq, by militants from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), listed as a terrorist group by much of the international community.

Iraq says exports will resume through a parallel link to the export pipeline that came under attack.

PKK have sabotaged the pipeline several times in the past as part of its armed campaign against the Turkish government. The pipeline has also been repeatedly attacked by militants inside Iraq since the US-led invasion of the country in 2003.

The 970-kilometre pipeline, which runs from Iraq’s northern oil hub of Kirkuk to the port of Ceyhan in Turkey, carries around 500-thousand barrels of crude oil per day.

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