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British Forces Grab Oil Pumping Equipment in Southeast Iraq
British Royal Marines have grabbed a key oil pumping equipment on the Fao Peninsula in southeast Iraq, said a British military spokesman on Friday.

British troops have taken the oil pumping equipment that leads into the northern Gulf and secured it, said Group Captain Al Lockwood of the Royal Air Force at the command post here of the US Central Command, which is in charge of the US-led war against Iraq.

The British officer said that elements of the Marines' Three Brigade were met with only light resistance after crossing the northern Gulf late Thursday to land on the peninsula.

No casualties were reported and "operations are continuing as planned," Lockwood added.

(Xinhua News Agency March 21, 2003)

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