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Move to bring Basra fuel to Iraqi
Kurdistan via Iran - Media
monitor
9.8.2006
Press from 8.August.2006
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Move to bring Basra fuel to Iraqi Kurdistan via Iran
(Kurdistani
Nwe)
Fuel shortages have led to growing discontent in
Iraqi Kurdistan and Erbil province in particular.
Erbil governor Nawzad Hadi told Kurdistani Nwe that
the local authorities were planning to deal with the
problem by getting fuel from Basra, but admitted
there were logistical difficulties, "According to
our information there is enough fuel in Basra oil
refineries, but because of instable security in the
southern and middle parts of Iraq, [it] cannot be
brought via roads [through these regions]."
The authorities now plan to ask Iran whether the
fuel can be transported from Basra to Kurdistan via
Iran.
(Kurdistani Nwe
is issued daily by the Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan.)
Twenty injured in Sulaimaniya province demos
(Awene)
Tens of people were arrested and twenty injured in
demonstrations in the Sulaimaniyah province towns of
Kifry, Chamchamal, Shorish and Darbandikhan. The
protests were in response to shortages of fuel and
electricity and alleged corruption.
The largest gatherings are said to have taken place
in Chamchamal and Gramyan. The violence was sparked
when large numbers of the security, police and civil
defence forces took to the streets.
According to Awene correspondents, 16 demonstrators
were injured in the town of Darbandikhan, three by
bullets and one of them is in a critical condition.
(Awene is a
Sulaimaniyah-based independent newspaper issued
weekly by the Awene Company.)
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