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Bombings And Attempted Bombings In

Juan Cole 10/17/2003

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Bombings and Attempted Bombings in North Iraq; Pipeline Hit

The northern pipeline was bombed again Thursday, setting back US hopes that exports would resume from the northern fields. A lot of the petroleum pumped around Kirkuk just has to be reinjected into the ground nowadays. A car bomb hit a police station in Kirkuk. An attempted car bombing at Irbil was stopped by police intervention. A bomb went off near the US base at Tikrit, killing an Iraqi girl but missing the Americans.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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