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How about columbia?

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Saturday January 15, 11:55 am Eastern Time

Colombia's Cano Limon pipeline bombed again

BOGOTA, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Colombia's Cano Limon-Covenas crude export pipeline has been bombed by Marxist rebels, forcing a halt to pumping less than a day after damage from a previous blast was repaired, state-run oil company Ecopetrol said on Saturday.

The pipeline was hit late Friday near the town of Arauca close to the Cano Limon field operated by Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE:OXY - news) in northeast Arauca province.

It is the second time this year that the 230,000 barrel per day pipeline has been bombed by guerrillas opposed to what they see as the excessive involvement by foreign multinationals in Colombia's oil industry.

The pipeline was blasted a record 79 times last year.

-- Helium (HeliumAvid@yahoo.com), January 17, 2000.

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Sudanese pipeline bombed by opposition group

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By MOHAMED OSMAN

KHARTOUM, Sudan (January 16, 2000 10:34 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - A little-known opposition group bombed an oil pipeline that supplies Sudan's capital of Khartoum, a government spokesman announced Sunday.

The attack took place Saturday, the same day that peace talks resumed in Kenya between the Sudanese government and southern rebels, said Amin Hassan Omar, a top official at the Culture and Information Ministry.

Omar said the attack damaged a 10-foot section of the 1,000-mile pipeline. The blast occurred in Summit, about 85 miles southwest of the Red Sea town of Port Sudan, near the Eritrean border. No injuries were reported.

Omar said security officials in the area found leaflets signed by a group called the Beja Conference, which is made up of four tribes in eastern Sudan. A spokesman for the group, Faqi Ali Mohammed, said the group had destroyed more than 25 feet of the pipeline.

"There can be no peace between the opposition and the government," he told Al-Jazeera television from Eritrea's capital, Asmara.

The group is not known to have carried out such attacks previously, although individual members of the group have joined Sudanese opposition forces.

Sunday's attack was the second on the pipeline in less than three months. After the first attack in November, the government blamed an unidentified neighboring country, a possible reference to Eritrea, where some exiled Sudanese opposition groups are based.

In statements broadcast by Sudanese television, Hassan Mohammed, undersecretary at the Ministry of Industry and Mining, said that a fire resulting from the pipeline explosion had been contained and that repairs would take about two days.

Meanwhile, rebels in southern Sudan said Sunday that a government aircraft bombed a town the insurgents control.

"The government bombed Yei yesterday, the day we officially resumed talks," said Samson Kwaje a spokesman for the Sudan People's Liberation Army. "Yet these are the people we are supposed to make peace with."

Kwaje said most of the bombs fell outside the town, 805 miles south of Khartoum, and the rebels had no casualty figures.

Christian and animist rebels in the south are fighting Sudan's Muslim-dominated government based in the north. The 16-year war and related famine have claimed nearly 2 million lives.

-- Helium (HeliumAvid@yahoo.com), January 17, 2000.

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Thanks Helium - I wasn't having much luck getting that long URL to stick.

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