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Attacks on Iraqi oil facilities decreasing -Bolton
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| News Date | Saturday, September 16, 2006 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Attacks on Iraq's oil industry and other critical public facilities have decreased but are still crimping the country's revenues and power generation, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said on Thursday.
The number of attacks on such facilities fell to an average of two per week in the latest quarter, compared to five weekly during the previous three months, Bolton told the U.N. Security Council in a status report on Iraq.
"Although the number of attacks is decreasing, the essential services infrastructure will continue to be a high-value target for enemy elements," he said, pledging the U.S.-led multinational force would keep working with the Iraqi government to improve security.
In an unusually blunt assessment of the challenges confronting Iraq nearly three and a half years after the March 2003 invasion that topped Saddam Hussein, Bolton said violence posed significant challenges to stability, reconstruction and the transition to Iraqi security forces. |
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