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Iraq readies for AQI strike on oil sector

Iraqi Oil Police initiate measures to combat possible attack, especially along the northern export pipeline.

A member of the Oil Protection Police leaves the site of a bombed oil pipeline near the northern city of Kirkuk, 03 July 2006. The number of attacks on the northern pipeline has reduced drastically since then, but security officials are worried about fresh intelligence showing an attack is planned by al-Qaida in Iraq. (MARWAN IBRAHIM/AFP/Getty Images)
A member of the Oil Protection Police leaves the site of a bombed oil pipeline near the northern city of Kirkuk, 03 July 2006. The number of attacks on the northern pipeline has reduced drastically since then, but security officials are worried about fresh intelligence showing an attack is planned by al-Qaida in Iraq. (MARWAN IBRAHIM/AFP/Getty Images)
By Ben Lando of Iraq Oil Report
Published August 24, 2010

Iraq's security forces are preparing for terrorist attacks on the country's oil sector following an intelligence report passed on to security chiefs by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

Maliki told the security officials Sunday of intelligence "that al-Qaida in Iraq plans to launch attacks on the oil facilities in general and pipelines in particular," said Maj. Gen. Hamid Abdullah Ibrahim, the head of the Interior Ministry's Oil Police Directorate.

On Monday, gunman intercepted five workers ...

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