Posted on 05/23/2007 3:23:07 AM PDT by Flavius
BAGHDAD, May 22 (UPI) -- Iraq agreed to increase oil exports directly to Iran via a new pipeline in the south, though export capacity in the north remains stuck.
Iraq Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani and Hasan Kazemi Qomi, the Iranian ambassador to Iraq, struck the deal, according to a top ministry spokesman.
"The two agreed to lay the oil pipeline from southern Iraq to Abadan region in Iran in order to export more than 200,000 barrels per day of Iraqi crude oil to Iran according to crude oil international prices," Issam Jihad told reporters.
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I..will.bet..it..comes..with..free..security
ie..that..the..insurgents..will..be..instructed..to..attack..all..other..pipelines
sorry..no..space..delimiter
What's the matter Imanutjob, not enough skilled hands to keep it up 'cause they're all off fighting in Iraq? It sucks to have nothing but unskilled labor and too many "intellectuals", doesn't it.
WHAT ?
This is American oil, paid for with American lives.
This pipeline must not happen, it must be “accidently” damaged and broken all the time.
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