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Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1104/p01s04-woiq.html
Sabotage Still Clogs Iraq's Oil
(Christian Science Monitor) In October, Iraq exported a daily average of 1.14 million barrels of crude, worth about $24 million. Yet the 300-mile pipeline from Kirkuk to Turkey's Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, which accounted for about 40% of Iraq's exports before the war, remains dry. The pipeline passes through the "Sunni Triangle" where resistance to the U.S. coalition is strongest, and it has been repeatedly targeted by saboteurs. Thousands of Iraqis have been recruited into the Facilities Protection Force to guard the pipeline.