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(16 Jun 2004)

Dibis western Kirkuk
1. White smoke rising from the exploded oil pipeline, firefighters walking
2. Fireballs smouldering from oil pipeline
3. Clouds of smoke
4. Fire engine at site
5. Clouds of white smoke rising

Kirkuk
6. Pool of blood mixed with water in front of the house of Ghazi Talabani
7. Exteriors of house with police
8. Family and locals outside house crying
9. Various of ambushed car
10. Blood on car seat and floor and shoes
11. Seat with blood
12. Bullet holes in side of car
13. US soldiers and police at site
14. Sign saying NOC (Northern Oil Company)

STORYLINE:

A series of attacks has been carried out on oil pipelines in Iraq, causing disruption to oil exports.

Gunmen also killed the top security official of the state-run Northern Oil company as insurgents stepped up attacks on Iraq's infrastructure.

A pipeline carrying oil to a domestic refinery was attacked on Tuesday night near Dibis, some 45 kilometres (20 miles) west of Kirkuk, according to
Mustafa Awad, an official in the Northern Oil Company.

That pipeline does not carry crude oil for export, however. The fire was extinguished.

On Wednesday another attack north of the town of Faw crippled two already damaged pipelines, forcing a halt in all Iraqi oil exports southward through the Gulf, Southern Oil Company.

An oil official said that due to the damage inflicted on the two pipelines, the pumping of oil to the Basra oil terminal had completely stopped and all oil exports from Iraq have come to a halt.

Exports were halted last month through the other avenue - the northern pipeline from Kirkuk to Ceyhan, Turkey, after a May 25 bombing, Turkish
officials said on condition of anonymity.

Meanwhile, in Kirkuk, gunmen ambushed and killed the top security official for the state-run Northern Oil Company on Wednesday.

Ghazi Talabani was killed as he travelled to work in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, according to an officials from the Iraqi Defence Corps.

Three gunmen shot at Talabani's car after his bodyguard briefly left the vehicle in a crowded market. His bodyguard was also wounded.

The security chief was the cousin of Jalal Talabani, the leader of one of the two main Kurdish political parties, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.

Talabani is the third official this month to be killed in Iraq in recent days. Gunmen killed an Education Ministry official Sunday, and a deputy foreign minister was slain as he went to work the day before.

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