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2007-04-03 Iraq

Saudi Arabia offers Kurds 2 billion dollars to give up Kirkuk

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-04-03 14:09|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "And I will give you...(looking into pocket) $5.14 for your young daughter!"

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-04-03 14:14|| 2007-04-03 14:14|| Front Page Top

#2 The main Iraqi oil reserves lie in Kurd and Shiite areas. A major part of the Saudi reserves lie in their Shia dominated areas.
Post-regime change in Iran, you'll have the Shia minority controlling the oil with the sunni back to mining sand... no money for the wahabi death cult.
Watch the fireworks and share the popcorn as the two main muslim groups fight it out...

Posted by John Frum 2007-04-03 14:26|| 2007-04-03 14:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Saudi Arabia should be cutting a deal to get shia in Saudi Arabia to emigrate into the new Iraq while convincing the Sunni in Iraq (who will soon have nothing but tribal history and dirt) to move to Saudi Arabia.

Secure their own resources rather than try to secure the Sunni in Iraq's oil future.

If Saudi Arabia played the Arab card right they could befriend Shia Iraq then without fear of their own oil-rich areas leaving and they could use this as a lever agains the Iranians.

Of course they'd have to swallow their bile and deal with Shia heretics. No plan is perfect.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-04-03 14:30|| 2007-04-03 14:30|| Front Page Top

#4 This could explain why a couple of senior Iranian honchos were ostensibly meeting with top Kurdish leaders. If the Saudis are negotiating for the disposition of Kirkuk, the Iranians probably have an angle to play.

Is Verlaine around today?

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2007-04-03 15:17|| 2007-04-03 15:17|| Front Page Top

#5 lol anonymoose

Posted by sinse 2007-04-03 15:51|| 2007-04-03 15:51|| Front Page Top

#6 "And I will give you...(looking into pocket) $5.14 for your young daughter!"

Screw you and the camel you rode in on! -- No, not right now, you idiot.

Anyway, she is worth at least four sheep and a cow! Anything less and you can take thy moustache hence.

Posted by gorb 2007-04-03 16:09|| 2007-04-03 16:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Although they can stick Sunni their meddling where the sun doesn't shine, it's nice to see the Saudis beginning to get a bit jumpy. The House of Saud is built on sand.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-03 16:12|| 2007-04-03 16:12|| Front Page Top

#8 How much for Baghdad, Saudi swine ?

Posted by wxjames 2007-04-03 16:47|| 2007-04-03 16:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Reading the Kurdish media, the Kurds position is that Kirkuk is ours, whether we get it through constititional means or military means is up to the rest of Iraq.

Posted by phil_b 2007-04-03 17:29|| 2007-04-03 17:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Would it be too much to hope that Kurds are one of the few peoples in Asia who believe not everything is for sale?

Posted by Jules 2007-04-03 19:31|| 2007-04-03 19:31|| Front Page Top

#11 assuming the story is acurate,

The Saudi's 2 billion offer would have included a promise that if the Kurds turned it down it would be given to their opponents.

Saudis know bribery and that it is best served with extortion.

Posted by Red Dog">Red Dog 2007-04-03 21:16|| 2007-04-03 21:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Kurds to Saudis: "Nuts!"

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