The World - News from June 19, 1986

Three simultaneous explosions blamed on saboteurs rocked the Al Ahmadi oil complex in southern Kuwait, setting ablaze an oil well and two pipeline networks and threatening 9 million barrels of crude oil. One oil worker was reported slightly injured. An official statement said “these criminal acts” will not alter Kuwait’s oil policies, and a Kuwaiti-based Arab diplomat said “pro-Iranian elements” are suspected. Kuwait, which supports Iraq in its war against Iran, also differs with the Iranians on oil policy. Iran wants to cut oil production to boost prices.