December 19, 2009 9:03 AM

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Oil well encroachers withdraw

In Iraq, three Iranian soldiers who encroached on an oil well in the Iraqi province of Missan bordering Iran withdrew a short while later. <br/><br/>Voice of Iraq news agency quoting an official of provincial council’s security committee, Sarhan Salem Younes, has reported that the Iranian soldiers stormed the al-Fakka oil well on the border strip between Iraq and Iran in Missan but they did not stay for long and withdrew a short while later.<br/><br/>Iran has denied the incident. Missan is 390 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.<br/>

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