"The dynamic Siamese twin duo of Dumb and Dumber will save the day!"
Posted on 12/18/2009 8:43:07 AM PST by null and void
NASIRIYAH, Iraq (AFP) – Iranian forces took control of a southern Iraqi oil well on a disputed section of the border on Friday, US and Iraqi officials told AFP.
"There has been no violence related to this incident and we trust this will be resolved through peaceful diplomacy between the governments of Iraq and Iran," a US military spokesman 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.
Well 4 lies in the Fauqa Field, part of a cluster of fields Iraq unsuccessfully put up for auction to oil majors in June. The field has estimated reserves of 1.55 million barrels.
The field is about 500 metres (yards) from an Iranian border fort and about 1 kilometre from an Iraqi border fort, US Colonel Peter Newell said, adding that it falls on the Iraqi side of a border agreed between the two countries.
There are five other similar fields that also fall into disputed territory, he said.
"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.
He added that the Iraqis are "very concerned about the Iranians pulling oil out of fields underneath Iraq."
Iran has prevented Iraqi oil officials from reaching the well in the past, an industry source said. The Iraqis have accused Iran of firing on their people, something Tehran has denied.
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Ain't going to happen.
Iran is testing Obama, just like it did Jimmy Carter.
“we will be tested and you will not be happy with the response” {or words to that effect], said Slow Joe.
Exactly. They know he is weak and foolish and in the gutter in the polls.
The ONLY thing Obama has going is his jail that all of his chicago thugs will get paid for to move terrorists from a state of the art court and superb miltary set-up in Gitmo.
He is wasting millions more dollars just to bash Bush and clear out Gitmo to give it to Castro.
SOMEONE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD ALMIGHTY IN HEAVEN CALL FOR IMPEACHMENT! THERE ARE so many articles to chose from for a write up!
why destroy the well? go for the border fort
When is America going to see the writing on the wall and see that Obama has been found deficient?
Time for an 0bamaBow to AkbarNutJob.
They don’t need oil. They have nuclear!
I'm not.
What better way to mock our last 8 years there and show what will happen the minute we leave.
I’m so annoyed. The Kenyan is discussing Global Warming he is such an evil evil evil loser! I bought 4 bottles of wine because of all this.
So who’s telling the truth here?
FYI, here’s a second thread over here.
"The dynamic Siamese twin duo of Dumb and Dumber will save the day!"
Iraqi general: Iranian troops 'occupy' oil well on Iraqi border
Iraqi general: Iranian troops 'occupy' oil well on Iraqi border
This seems big. Is it big? Why doesn’t anybody else think it’s big? Isn’t it big? HAve they retweeted?
Buried in the story is the fact that this happens to these particular wellheads every few months.
Some day (soon) Iran is going to try to make it stick.
Iran staged an invasion of Iraqi territory on Friday as it established tank positions around an oilfield north of Basra raising fresh fears for Middle East stability.
Since when has the middle east been stable? LOL
Nothing to see here, move along...
Reminds me of the National Intelligence Report 2007 that said Iran was a good 10 years from developing nuclear weapons....
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