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.
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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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