Iraqi engineers and technicians were clearing debris and trying to restore power to residents of Ain Zala, a relatively minor oil-producing town that pumps about 10,000 barrels a day. The communications center, on the side of a tree-lined hill, is 300 feet from about 50 houses for oil workers. Iraqi officials, who escorted journalists to see the damage, displayed a metal container about 20 inches long that they said was part of the two bombs that hit the center Monday. Metal scraps and debris from electricity poles and wires littered the area. In Turkey, meanwhile, the Anatolia news agency reported a delegation of Turkish technicians had traveled to a communications center in Silopi, near the Iraqi border, to coordinate the re-establishment of communication with the Iraqis.
Oil revenues are to be used for food, medicine and other humanitarian goods.
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