PIPELINE PROBLEMS: For the second time in as many weeks, suspicion is falling on Kurdish rebels for an explosion that has forced Turkey to shut down a pipeline carrying oil from Iraq to international markets.
BLAME GAME: Authorities suspect the blast was the result of sabotage, but will not elaborate. Turkey’s state-run TRT television claimed that the pipeline was blown up by Kurdish rebels who are fighting for autonomy in Turkey’s Kurdish-dominated southeast. A news agency close to the rebels said on its website Monday that the Kurdish insurgents have claimed responsibility for the blast.
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