Insight: 'Crude For Blood' - Return Of Sectarian War Hits Iraq's Oil Exports -- Reuters
(Reuters) - Iraq's Sunni insurgents are targeting its main northern oil pipeline, undoing plans for a massive increase in exports as violence reaches levels unseen since the darkest days of civil war.
Iraq's ambitious plans to ramp up its oil output have been held back by poor maintenance and technical problems. Violence is making the situation worse, and, if it continues to escalate, could have a measurable impact on global supply.
Death tolls for the past three months in Iraq have been the highest for five years, since the days when rival Sunni and Shi'ite militias fought for control of neighborhoods and battled 170,000 U.S. troops.
Today, the Americans are long since gone, but sectarian animosity has re-emerged, fuelled by resentment among Sunni Muslims at what they perceive as domination by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Shi'ite majority.
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