Iraqi official: Iranians seized Iraqi oil well
"BAGHDAD — Iraq's deputy foreign minister says Iranian troops have seized an oil well in southern Iraq along their disputed border."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j9nhq79C6N...
"Iran Forces Occupy Iraqi Oil Well, Border Guard Says"
"Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Iranian forces yesterday entered Iraqi territory at dawn and occupied well number 4 in the East Maysan oil field, Border Guard General Zafer Nazmi said.
The Iranian forces positioned tanks around the well, which is in the al-Fakah region, 450 kilometers (280 miles) south of Baghdad. The two neighbors have disputed the border of southeast Iraq for decades.
“They positioned tanks around it and dug trenches,” General Nazmi said by phone from Basra. “They are still there, they raised the flag.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=a3lUUctg...
Why isn't the story of Rand Paul's
campign employee/director stepping down, being covered anywhere on DP?
I just read something on huffington post.
11 soldiers..stopped for couple of hours..
and left.
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Report: Iran troops ventured onto Iraqi oilfield
Published: 12.18.09, 14:56 / Israel News
Iranian troops briefly entered Iraqi territory on Thursday and spent several hours at an Iraqi oilfield, an Iraqi official said on Friday.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3821886,00.html
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..a U.S. military spokesman had told AFP at Contingency Operating Base Adder, just outside the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah.
"The oil field is in disputed territory in between Iranian and Iraqi border forts," he said, adding that such incidents occur quite frequently.
However, Iraq's Deputy Interior Minister Ahmed Ali al-Khafaji said no incursion took place.
"This news in not true. This field is disputed and now it is neglected by both sides. There was no storming of the field, it's empty, it's abandoned, it is exactly on the border between Iraq and Iran," he told Reuters.
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=170902
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Yawn.....
"At 3:30 this afternoon, 11 Iranian [soldiers] infiltrated the Iran-Iraq border and took control of the oil well. They raised the Iranian flag, and they are still there until this moment," he told the Reuters news agency.
There was no immediate comment on the alleged incident from Tehran.
Khafaji said Baghdad had taken no military action against the Iranian troops and would seek a measured, diplomatic response to the situation.
"We are awaiting orders from our leader," he said.
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"This well is located on Iraqi land, 300 metres inside Iraq. It is disputed between Iran and Iraq. There was an agreement between the two countries' oil ministers to fix this problem diplomatically."
It was not clear whether the Iranian troops were believed to still be at the oilfield.
Colonel Peter Newell, a US military spokesman in Iraq, said that such incidents were not uncommon in the area.
"What happens is, periodically, about every three or four months, the oil ministry guys from Iraq will go ... to fix something or do some maintenance. They'll paint it in Iraqi colours and throw an Iraqi flag up.
"They'll hang out there for a while, until they get tired, and as soon as they go away, the Iranians come down the hill and paint it Iranian colours and raise an Iranian flag.
"It happened about three months ago and it will probably happen again."
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/12/2009121...
They already split the oil field
But if I was a Pig of an Oil Trader, I'd be smearing myself with this headline.
YAWN.
Liberate
We better hurry up and liberate those poor people with bombs.
And then install a US chosen puppet dictator!!
Oh yes! Then they won't hate us anymore!!
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Haha...Sounds like they need
Haha...Sounds like they need a hefty dose of democracy!
lol.............. TREASON:
lol..............
TREASON: "Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason." Sir John Harrington, 1561-1612
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LOL
I love this place.
If this starts showing up on
If this starts showing up on TV I would start to worry
False Flag
False Flag, here we come! ...
That's how wars start
Thanks for the article.
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That's an EXCUSE to start a war and invade another Middle East country.
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