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Senate finds that Bush administration failed to act to block 'illegal' oil deal
The Senate has concluded that the Bush administration sat idly by while an oil deal which undercut the Iraqi government was concluded by a Texan oil company for oil in Kurdistan. The Senate has concluded that the Bush administration sat idly by while an oil deal which undercut the Iraqi government was concluded ... more
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The struggle for Iraq's oil flares up as Kurds open doors to foreign investors
At the end of a rough dirt track, on a sun-baked hillock once the domain of scorpions and snakes, squats an odd settlement of caravans, generators and drilling rigs that is at the heart of the battle for Iraq's oil.
"Welcome to Texas, Kurdistan," said Karim Ali, as his taxi bounced to the gates of the Taq Taq oilfields, on the undulating plains of Koi Sanjaq, some 80 miles south-east of Irbil. "Soon we'll all have big hats and cigars like them," he said, nodding at a group of oil workers passing by on a pickup truck.
Like many Iraqis, Karim appeared convinced that the country's vast reserves of crude, the bedrock of its economy, were about to be siphoned off by major US oil corporations. The presence of "foreigners" here at Taq Taq merely cemented his certainty.
With the Bush administration pressing the Iraqi government to pass a new hydrocarbons law, there are widely voiced assumptions that it will bulldoze the oil industry into privatisation, and that foreign firms - meaning US ones - will unfairly reap the rewards. A survey published yesterday by a group of British and American NGOs suggested most Iraqis oppose plans to open the oilfields to foreign investment.
At the end of a rough dirt track, on a sun-baked hillock once the domain of scorpions and snakes, squats an odd settlement of caravans... more -
GOOD KURDS, BAD KURDS.
Question: - Who are good kurds and who are bad kurds?
Unswer: - Good Kurds have patrol, bad kurds do not.
Q: - Is that right?
U: Well, ask Bush.
; Question: - Who are good kurds and who are bad kurds? Unswer: - Good Kurds have patrol, bad kurds do not. Q: - Is that right? ... more -
GOD BLASS USA
USA sawed Kurds. Kurds should never forget what USA did for them. Saddam killed 100s of 1000s of Kurds.
People talk about interest in oil while they should be talking about sawed lives..
I wish people who does not agree with USA, Bush could think that them selves could have been Kurds as well. USA sawed Kurds. Kurds should never forget what USA did for them. Saddam killed 100s of 1000s of Kurds. ... more -
WATCH THIS HUMANITY... Watch Saddam
Watch.... If you can...
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WATCH SADDAM TOTURING KURDS
How Saddam Hussein used to torture people (video 2)
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Iran ends oil transactions in U.S. dollars
Iran, OPEC's second-largest producer, has completely stopped conducting oil transactions in U.S. dollars, a top Oil Ministry official said Wednesday, a concerted attempt to reduce reliance on Washington at a time of tension over Tehran's nuclear program and suspected involvement in Iraq.
Iran has dramatically reduced dependence on the dollar over the past year in the face of increasing U.S. pressure on its financial system and the fall in the value of the American currency.
Oil is priced in U.S. dollars on the world market, and the currency's depreciation has concerned producers because it has contributed to rising crude prices and eroded the value of their dollar reserves.
"The dollar has totally been removed from Iran's oil transactions," Oil Ministry official Hojjatollah Ghanimifard told state-run television Wednesday. "We have agreed with all of our crude oil customers to do our transactions in non-dollar currencies."
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the depreciating dollar a "worthless piece of paper" at a rare summit last year in Saudi Arabia attended by state leaders from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Iran put pressure on other OPEC countries at the meeting to price oil in a basket of currencies, but it has not been able to generate support from fellow members — many of whom, including Saudi Arabia, are staunch U.S. allies. Iran, OPEC's second-largest producer, has completely stopped conducting oil transactions in U.S. dollars, a top Oil Ministry official ... more -
IRAN or PERSIA and KURDS
Kurds, the people of no a nation. Beink killed by Turks, Persians and Arabs, because they are danger for them, as they have taken Kurds home land Kurdistan. Kurds, the people of no a nation. Beink killed by Turks, Persians and Arabs, because they are danger for them, as they have taken Kurd... more
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Turks, Arabs and Persians - Muslims
This is for Turks, Arabs, Persians and every other muslim to watch and give an unswer.
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Iran&Turkey border-Kurdish people saved an American woman
Kurs and American lady.
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