Posted on 07/30/2014 8:17:26 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
A federal magistrate judge ruled Tuesday that U.S. Marshals will not be able to able to carry out her earlier order to seize a million barrels of Kurdish crude oil unless the tanker carrying the cargo comes closer to the Texas shore.
The Wall Street Journal reported that federal magistrate judge Nancy Johnson said that the United Kalavrvta tanker was not within the boundaries of the state or the court's authority. She also said that the matter of who owned the oil should be decided in Iraq, not the United States.
"Seems to me this is not a matter for the U.S. courts to tell the government—the governments—of Iraq who owns what," Johnson said, according to The Journal. "This just seems way outside our jurisdiction."
On Monday, Johnson had ordered the cargo seized in response to a complaint filed by the Iraqi government claiming the oil was smuggled out of Kurdistan without its permission.
If the tanker moves in closer so that smaller vessels can deliver its oil to shore, the U.S. Marshal will act on the court warrant and seize the cargo from those vessels, spokesman Dave Oney told the Associated Press.
The United Kalavryta left a Turkish port in June carrying the crude from a newly opened pipeline that transports crude from the Kurdish oil fields. The buyer was not immediately known.
As the ship approached Texas, Baghdad acted on a threat to sue anyone who buys Kurdish oil, pre-emptively filing a civil suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. On Tuesday, Iraqi Oil Ministry spokesman Assem Jihad welcomed the U.S. judge's seizure order. "The Iraqi government considers these oil shipments to be illegal and we hope that everybody in the world will respect our measures," he said.
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ISIS is going to own it soon I guess
Thank you.
When you are drafted, you didn't volunteer. You were fodder.
We do have incredibly patriotic men and women in our military who would do anything to defend our traditions and values.
We have an internal war going on and not just with the democrats. This started with George H.W. Bush ‘Bush the Elder’ and his ‘Moderate’ Rockefeller-Republican approach to governing. His mistakes led to Clinton and Clinton led to ‘Bush the Younger’ who succumbed to the RINO Moderate wing of the party. That led to Obama who was opposed by two Moderate RINOs, McCain and Romney. So now we have got to ‘purge’ these losers from our party so that we will have our party back for winners.
Our enemies are the democrats and the GOP establishment. If we don’t take out BOTH, we are lost for the 2016 cycle.
As usual, BO hides behind the "Bush's fault" excuse when it suits him and ignores precedent when it does not.
The second thing, ISIS is in control only because the Iraqi Sunnis go along with him. Without the Iraqi Sunnis support in Iraq, ISIS would not be a player.
“When you are drafted, you didn’t volunteer. You were fodder.”
That may have been true for some, but I know my own father (when I was barely a year old), went down and enlisted in the US Navy a day or two after Pearl Harbor. He was gone for four years! And while he was fortunate enough not to be wounded, he had “jungle rot” and a host of other problems for the rest of his life from being in the Philippines.
“Our enemies are the democrats and the GOP establishment. If we don’t take out BOTH, we are lost for the 2016 cycle.”
You need to add in the US Chamber of Communists, but otherwise you are 100% correct. I am waiting to see what ends up happening in Mississippi. That needs to end very badly for the GOPe and Haley (Boss Hogg) Barbour.
One of Ronald Reagan’s major mistakes was allowing himself to be co-opted into bringing GHWB onto his ticket.
“If the oil gets partitioned, there will be continuous war over the oil.”
Well, the war has started despite the “Bush Policy.”
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