Showing posts with label KRG. Show all posts
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January 27, 2008

Turkey, US, Neo Cons, PKK, KRG. The Kurdish Oil Question

Kurdishaspect.com - By Hevallo


Is 2008 the year that The Oil Question in Kurdistan maybe settled?

The US and Turkey are lining up together as a military and political force. Turkey and the US are leading the military and psychological war against the Kurdish Freedom Movement.

Abdullah Gul is on his way to the US to cement the relationship that is looking to 'solve' the Kurdish Question in Turkey by sheer military force, so as to open up Turkey as a 'energy corridor' to the West.

Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution guaranteed a referendum on the political status of Kirkuk and surrounding areas, supposedly to take place in Dec 2007. It has been postponed and many people believe that is will never happen.

Exxon Mobil have just bought 730,000 barrels of Kirkuk oil from 'Iraq' bypassing' the Kurdish Regional Government and are ready to 'tender' for more Iraqi oil concessions at the end of this month. Exxon Mobil already pump oil from Kirkuk under an existing contract. Exxon Mobil also own 51% of Turkey's biggest oil refinery run by Anadolu Tasfiyehanesi AS

American Enterprise Institute are leading the arguments in the US about 'Turkey's right to defend itself against the PKK' and arguing for greater US aid to Turkey. Again today, in The Washington Times editorial Michael Rubin's arguments are being put forward in the mainstream US media.

Michael Rubin is a paid employee of the American Enterprise Institute, that is funded by Exxon Mobil to sway foreign policy in its favor. Paul Wolfowitz, the architect of the Iraqi occupation, is also a member of AEI. As is Richard Perle named only today by Sibel Edmonds as implicated in a criminal scandal that involves Turkish Lobbyists in the US, Turkish MIT Agents and Top US Politicians.

This from an article in The Guardian about the AEI:

"....by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded think-tank with close links to the Bush administration....."

"....The AEI has received more than $1.6m from ExxonMobil and more than 20 of its staff have worked as consultants to the Bush administration. Lee Raymond, a former head of ExxonMobil, is the vice-chairman of AEI's board of trustees."

As readers of Hevallo will know, these arguments have gone from the 'fringes' (remember Scott Sullivan) to mainstream in just less than 11 months time following a PR/Psychological warfare campaign. This is all a cover for US support for Turkey and a possible US/Turkish invasion of Kurdistan.

Military and political pressure being mounted at precisely the time when Iraq is receiving 'tenders' for granting oil concessions.

Unfortunately, what the policy makers in The Hudson Institute, American Enterprise Institute and any other Neo Con 'Think Tank' have not 'thought' about is the necessity of a peaceful and political resolution to the Kurdish Question in order that Turkey can become the energy hub to the West that they are all pushing for.

Because if they honestly believe that they can solve militarily, what Turkey, supported by the whole Western world, have failed to do in the last 28 years, then they are going to be bitterly disappointed and the shares in their oil companies are going to plummet when they are faced with the associated difficulties of a continued conflict in the oil producing region.

Will 2008 be the year that the Oil Question in Kurdistan is settled?

I doubt that very much. Unless of course the Turkish/US Neo Con alliance realize that they need to solve the Kurdish Question peacefully, so Turkey can become the 'energy hub' that they aspire to be.
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For original article with links please see http://hevallo.blogspot.com

Stop Press: Read Hevallo or Rasti for Sibel Edmonds, 'expose' of the Neo Con/Turkish lobbyists 'scandal of the century'

December 04, 2007

Cheney browbeats Kurdistan. Sigh.

First, if the US fails at this, it risks other Kurds coming in and handing the entire pie over to the Chinese and the Indian business interests, so one can say "About time!" if you believe that US geopolitical goals are actually furthered by this fiasco in the making.

On the other hand, it is fair to ask: what is the new agitprop show is going on the road soon ??!!

Ain't it fine when one set of crook$ mets with another set of crook$?

What pray tell is the US doing a sovereign nation what it's policy should be? Oh, you forgot, Irak/Kurdistan is not a US property, didn't you .. c'mon admit it! You just completely forgot!

The rightwinger blog I found this one had the comment:

If anyone can do it, Dick can do it!!

they were REAL pleased about this.

Impeach the basTARD.

Virginia


US Vice President Cheney and Iraqi Kurdistan leaders meet About Oil

Cheney met with two senior leaders of the KRG.

03 December 2007 (The Washington Post)

Vice President Cheney met on Friday with two senior leaders from the regional government in Kurdistan region in 'northern Iraq' who have been wooing U.S. oil companies despite earlier State Department criticism of Kurdish leaders for signing oil and gas exploration deals. Cheney's office said that the vice president met with Omer Fattah Hussain, deputy prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, and Ashti Abdullah Hawrami, the regional minister of oil and natural resources. For more than a year, the Bush administration has been pressing Iraqi leaders to agree on a national petroleum law, seeing it as an important step toward uniting different regions.

In September, State Department officials called the Washington representatives of major oil companies to discourage them from signing deals with the Kurdistan regional government, which adopted its own petroleum law in August.

Advisers to the Iraqi Kurds said yesterday that they saw the meetings that Kurdish officials had with Cheney and with Reuben Jeffery, undersecretary of state for economic, energy and agricultural affairs, as signs of a change in U.S. attitudes.
"This is the first really high-level engagement for a long time and certainly since the oil law was started,"
said Jonathan Morrow, an adviser to the Kurdistan Regional Government.
"Far from the U.S. taking it as an opportunity to lean on the Kurds and ask them to withdraw from their position on Iraqi federalism in the oil sector, they're brainstorming with the Kurds on how to break the impasse in Baghdad."
Kurdish authorities signed a dozen oil and gas exploration contracts in November, bringing to 20 the total number of contracts signed. Shares of DNO Asa, a Norwegian oil company that entered an exploration agreement with Kurdistan regional authorities in 2005, jumped 13 percent yesterday in Oslo after the firm reported encouraging production tests and raised reserve estimates in its exploration bloc in Kurdistan 'northern Iraq'.

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