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| Allah Be Praised -- Big Oil Fields Discovered Under Moslem Bosnia |
| 2004-06-05 |
| From Khilafah Macedonia’s A-1 TV reported yesterday that two major oil deposits have been discovered in Bosnia. .... a veteran Bosnian oilman has told Bosnian daily Nezavisne Novine that officials first knew they had a significant find before Bosnia’s independence war, but were told to keep quiet about it. "The foreign consultants back in 1991 advised us to not say anything in public yet and that we should wait for a better time," said Brod Refinery’s Mika Sukurma. "But for that ’better time’ we had to wait almost 13 years." According to Nezavisne Novine, the oil discovered is of a "very good quality." Officials believe that it amounts to 50 million tons near Tuzla and 500 million tons near Samac. According to A-1, this total would serve to supply the country for the next 10 years. Bosnian officials believe that from the Samac hoard alone $300 million of profit can be made annually. But they have yet to equate how much excavation and infrastructure costs will cut into profits. Interestingly enough, the US oil giant Amoco (now part of BP) has been on the job for the past 12 years. Since then, it has been cooperating with the one of the biggest Bosnian corporations, Energoinvest. Tuzla was also conveniently located in the SFOR American sector, and served as a key logistics area for the covert importation of Iranian and Saudi mujahedin by the US during the 1990’s. The area was home for the Bosnian Army’s "9th Muslim Brigade," composed of local and foreign religious warriors used against the Serbs .... |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #2 Tuzla was also conveniently located in the SFOR American sector, and served as a key logistics area for the covert importation of Iranian and Saudi mujahedin by the US during the 1990’s. "But, but, but . . . I thought America was a tool of the Zionists and the enemy of all Muslims. Sheik Osama said so himself, and he would never get anything wrong, would he? My head aches! Mahmoud, where is my aspirin?" |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-06-05 7:30:47 AM |
| #1 since when are petroleum reserves quoted in tons? "Excavation"? They're gonna dig down to it?Salt to taste.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-05 7:17:59 AM |