From: Damien Broderick (thespike@earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Jan 19 2003 - 14:18:11 MST
Ron h. says:
> Sounds great, Europeans get to continue doing business with
> Saddam
> You get to continue buying under the table those things Saddam
> needs to get hard currency
Meanwhile, the press tells us:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/822481.asp
Illegal oil lines Saddam's pockets
U.S. looks the other way on vast network of contraband Iraqi crude Turkish
oil tankers flow constantly through northern Iraq, where the Kurdish
population protected by a 'no-fly' zone over the area collect taxes on the
goods.
...little has been done to stanch the flagrant flow of crude via the Zakho
border. Nothing has been done to cut off a pipeline that pumps Iraqi oil
into Syria. Nothing has been done to stop an estimated 75,000 to 110,000
barrels a day flowing into Jordan. Nor has anything substantial been done to
stop a regular passenger train to Syria filled with oil.
[and so on]
How... *interesting*.
Damien Broderick
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