Blast hampers Iraqi oil exports

Monday, June 23, 2003

KIRKUK, Iraq -- Iraq re-entered the world oil market Sunday with its first shipment of crude since the war, but sabotage and looting along its largest pipeline delayed the flow of freshly pumped oil -- the key to the reconstruction of an economy devastated by sanctions and war.

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