Iraq has tightened security around oil infrastructure and oil fields in the south in response to intelligence suggesting al Qaeda and other insurgent groups plan to attack oil facilities, a security official said.
Ali al-Maliki, head of the municipal security committee in the southern oil hub of Basra, said the information indicated that al Qaeda in Iraq and Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party were switching their sights to economic targets and oil companies. 'We have received intelligence...More
published:05/09/2010 05:17 GMT
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