Pipeline Outburst Causes Oil Exports's Cut

Iraq: an oil pipeline has been blasted by rioters, causing Iraq's daily oil exports reducing by 25 percent.
U.S. troops were engaged in fire-fight Monday with radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr fighters n this Shiite city south of Baghdad.
American tanks and helicopters destroyed al-Sadr's headquarters in the Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City in weekend clashes. U.S. officials said 35 Iraqis were killed before fighting ended just before dawn Monday.
Later Monday, a large but distant explosion was heard in central Baghdad, and Al Jazeera television reported renewed clashes in Sadr City.
In a statement broadcast by Lebanon's Al Manar television, the "political forces of Sadr City" appealed to U.S. authorities to stop attacks on the district and to "peacefully solve this conflict without violence, terrorism and extreme cruelty."
An aide to al-Sadr vowed Monday to step up the campaign against the U.S.-led occupation.