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Oil Pipelines Attacked North, South of Baghdad
Aired December 21, 2003 - 07:31 ET
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CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN HOST: Oil pipelines sabotaged, score settling killing Ba'ath Party officials. The violence is continuing as Iraq hosts the first Arab League Delegation to visit since the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime.
Let's go now to CNN's Rym Brahimi, who's joining us now live in Baghdad with the latest -- Rym?
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Catherine, yes, we just have the details of these attacks against oil pipelines. An oil ministry spokesman told us there were two attacks in the night from Friday to Saturday. One of them, about 40 kilometers north of Baghdad. An explosion at a supply pipeline. And then another one exactly about the same night. It was 15 kilometers south of Baghdad. A rocket propelled grenade basically hit an oil pipeline, basically making it lose some 10 million liters of oil.
Now that's very significant, as you know, Catherine, because there's a lot of problems with supplying gas and fuel to the people in Iraq. Lines -- queues for gas, for people to fill up their cars go -- sometimes people wait for eight hours in order to able to be able to just fill up their car.
Now there's also been an explosion or at least a fire from what we understand at a storage facility for fuel, some place that was hosting some 350 barrels of oil, according to eyewitnesses, a huge fire at that place. And firefighters had to come in and turn that fire out.
The Arab League Delegation, a significant development as you mentioned, because it's the first time that the Arab League doesn't recognize the governing council officially, has actually come to Baghdad since the fall of the previous regime. Catherine?
CALLAWAY: All right, Rym, thank you. That's Rym Brahimi in Baghdad.
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Aired December 21, 2003 - 07:31 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN HOST: Oil pipelines sabotaged, score settling killing Ba'ath Party officials. The violence is continuing as Iraq hosts the first Arab League Delegation to visit since the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime.
Let's go now to CNN's Rym Brahimi, who's joining us now live in Baghdad with the latest -- Rym?
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Catherine, yes, we just have the details of these attacks against oil pipelines. An oil ministry spokesman told us there were two attacks in the night from Friday to Saturday. One of them, about 40 kilometers north of Baghdad. An explosion at a supply pipeline. And then another one exactly about the same night. It was 15 kilometers south of Baghdad. A rocket propelled grenade basically hit an oil pipeline, basically making it lose some 10 million liters of oil.
Now that's very significant, as you know, Catherine, because there's a lot of problems with supplying gas and fuel to the people in Iraq. Lines -- queues for gas, for people to fill up their cars go -- sometimes people wait for eight hours in order to able to be able to just fill up their car.
Now there's also been an explosion or at least a fire from what we understand at a storage facility for fuel, some place that was hosting some 350 barrels of oil, according to eyewitnesses, a huge fire at that place. And firefighters had to come in and turn that fire out.
The Arab League Delegation, a significant development as you mentioned, because it's the first time that the Arab League doesn't recognize the governing council officially, has actually come to Baghdad since the fall of the previous regime. Catherine?
CALLAWAY: All right, Rym, thank you. That's Rym Brahimi in Baghdad.
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