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Friday, December 30, 2005

Shut Down Of Iraq’s Largest Refinery Creates Long Gas Lines In Baghdad…

Associated Press SINAN SALAHEDDIN December 30, 2005 at 11:19 AM
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Long lines formed at gas stations in Baghdad on Friday as word spread that
Iraq's largest oil refinery had shut down in the face of threats against truck drivers, and fears grew of a gas shortage.

Also in the capital, a suicide car bomber and a mortar killed six people and injured 23 people in separate attacks Friday, police said. The car bomber blew himself up next to a police patrol in a commercial area, killing three Iraqi civilians, and the mortar landed in a market, killing three Iraqi civilians and injuring 21. The market was closed because of the Friday holiday.

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Death threats close Iraqi oil refinery

Posted: 12:20 AEDT

Authorities in Iraq have admitted that they have been forced to close the country's biggest oil refinery after tanker drivers stopped work because of death threats.

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