Efforts to resume oil exports from the north stumble, raids west of Baghdad

Associated Press ^ | 10-18-03

[Brian S]

Efforts to resume vital oil exports from northern Iraq -- halted for weeks by sabotage -- stumbled once more Saturday when the main pipeline to Turkey sprang a leak, Turkish officials said.

Elsewhere, U.S. troops and Iraqi police arrested 11 people, three of them women, who were suspected of links to attacks against U.S. soldiers, witnesses said. The arrests came after the deadliest day for American soldiers in a month.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

It is the third oil leak since Bush declared an end to major combat operations.

[AmericaUnited]

And is that some how meaningful?

[At _War_With_Liberals]

It was sarcastic.