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By Atul Aneja
MANAMA, APRIL 25. Iraq's main oil terminal in Basra has reopened after suicide bombers carried out three boat attacks last night, leading to the shutdown of the facility. Two U.S. sailors died when one of the suspected boats that they wanted to board blew up. Shamkhi Faraj, head of the State Oil Marketing Organisation, was quoted as saying that the strike, the first sea-borne attack after the U.S. occupation of Iraq, did not damage the port's oil infrastructure. Exports of 1.6 millions barrels per day had resumed, he said. U.S. military officials said they were trying to determine the launch location of the attack on the two offshore oil terminals, located at a distance of 160 km from the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr. The assailants had used sailboats, or dhows, for the attack. Saturday's bombings were similar to the Al-Qaeda-linked strikes off the coast of Yemen against the USS Cole in 2000, where 17 American sailors were killed and a French oil tanker in 2002.
Howard visits troops
AP reports: The leaders of Australia and Bulgaria visited their troops in Iraq on Sunday, a show of support for the U.S.-led coalition that follows announcements from Spain, Honduras and the Dominican Republic that they plan to pull out. The Australian Prime Minister, John Howard's surprise trip coincided with the country's main veterans' commemoration, which honours troops who fought in World War I's ill-fated Gallipoli campaign. He was accompanied by the commander of coalition ground forces, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez.
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