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| Iraq |
| Oil revenue being diverted to insurgency |
| 2006-02-05 |
| Iraq's finance minister believes that 40 percent to 50 percent of black-market oil revenues are going to the insurgency, the New York Times reported Saturday. I'm sorry, I just can't go to the NYT anymore. Ali Allawi said insurgents have infiltrated management at the Baiji oil refinery and are using their positions to divert oil. "It's gone beyond Nigeria levels now where it really threatens national security," Allawi told the Times. "The insurgents are involved at all levels." Meshaan al-Juburi, a Sunni member of the Iraqi National Assembly, has been charged with stealing millions of dollars that was supposed to be used for pipeline protection, said Radhi Hamza al-Radhi, the chairman of the Commission on Public Integrity. The director of an oil storage facility near Kirkuk was charged Saturday with helping to arrange an attack on the plant. Radhi said armed guards did not prevent an attack on a 60-truck convoy from Baiji to Baghdad. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 TW: I agree completely. The Slimes has become the house organ for the looniest fringe of the Democratic Party to the point of being anti-American. It is remarkable that they, as a defendent in the Justice Department's investigation into the leaking of the NSA antiterrorism activities, continuously runs articles that attempt to defend their indefensible position. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-02-05 12:45 |
| #4 Gleager Threater2270, I saw this UPI article at the Washington Times website. Feel free to read the original New York Times article, but I won't -- the NYT presses all the wrong buttons for me these days, and I refuse to waste energy getting angry at them. Is that what you were wtf-ing about? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-02-05 10:10 |
| #3 As I keep telling you, terrorism is a business. Gotta have that revenue flow. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2006-02-05 07:44 |
| #2 wtf |
| Posted by: Gleager Threater2270 2006-02-05 03:13 |
| #1 Wouldn't surprise me even a little bit. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-02-05 00:28 |