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| Iraq |
| Islamic State attacks gas plant north of Baghdad, killing 11 |
| 2016-05-16 |
| [MSN] An Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... attack on a state-run gas plant in Baghdad's northern outskirts on Sunday killed at least 11 people, including coppers, and forced two power stations it supplied to suspend electricity production. A suicide boom-mobile went off at the entrance of the facility in Taji at around 0600 local time (0300 GMT), allowing another vehicle carrying at least six attackers with explosive vests to enter and clash with security forces, police sources said. Twenty-one people were also maimed. The krazed killer group said in an online statement that four fighters with machine guns had killed the guards at the plant which it said the Iraqi army was using as a headquarters. When reinforcements arrived, they set off a parked boom-mobile before clashing with the security forces and detonating their boom jackets. A front man for Baghdad Operations Command said three of the facility's gas storages were set alight before security forces were able to bring the situation under control. Iraq's Oil Ministry said the attack had not disrupted the plant's production of gas for cooking and electricity production. But the Electricity Ministry said two nearby power stations had halted operations due to a cut in gas supplies from the Taji plant. It was not clear how long it would take to restore flow to the power stations, which provided 153 megawatts to the already overstretched national grid before the attack. Video broadcast by Al Hadath TV showed a fireball surging from the plant. An employee who lives nearby said after hearing a powerful blast he saw flames and black smoke coming from inside the facility. Dozens of police and army vehicles rushed to the site where shooting lasted for about an hour, he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |