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BAGHDAD — Sunni insurgents, including Al Qaida, have begun targeting
oil and gas fields in Iraq.

Officials said Al Qaida-aligned fighters attacked a camp near a natural
gas field in the Iraqi province of Anbar.

The officials said at least two Iraqi engineers were killed and another was injured in an attack on workers contracted by South Korea’s Korea Gas Corp. on April 1 near the Akkas field.

“There are suspicions that the attackers might have come from rebel
units in Syria,” an official said.

Akkas is located near Qaim along the Iraqi-Syrian border and deemed a
route for Syrian rebels.

The field, discovered in 1992 and operated by Korea Gas, contains reserves of nearly 160 billion cubic meters.

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