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Iran: Oil field is ours, not Iraq's
Y-Net News ^ | Dec. 19, 2009 | Dudi Cohen

Posted on 12/19/2009 3:45:05 PM PST by La Enchiladita

Iran confirmed Saturday that its forces had taken over East Maysan oil field, located on the Iran-Iraq border. The move caused a 2.4% spike in oil prices.

"The Iranian forces are on Iranian soil, as defined by known international borders. This oil field is Iran's" said an Iranian armed forces statement quoted by the Islamic Republic Arab-language television station, al-Alam.

Proprietary of the East Maysan oil field had been the center of a dispute between Tehran and Bagdad for a lengthy period of time.

Iraq's Deputy Interior Minister Ahmed Ali al-Khafaji said the move was the latest in a series of Iranian incursions over the past few days, which focused on the Fauqa oil field, some 186 miles south of Bagdad.

The invasion followed an agreement between the Iraqi Oil Ministry and several of the world's leading oil energy companies, to operate seven oil fields.

Iraq slammed the incursion as a violation of its sovereignty and demanded Iran withdraws its troops immediately. This is the first major incident between Iran and Iraq since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: axisofevil; fakka; fakkaoilfield; fauqa; fauqaoilfield; iran; iraq; iraqioil; israel; oil; oilfields; wot
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Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff stressed Saturday that the matter must be resolved independently between the two parties.

:-)

1 posted on 12/19/2009 3:45:05 PM PST by La Enchiladita
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To: La Enchiladita

Bomb them.


2 posted on 12/19/2009 3:51:40 PM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: La Enchiladita

Sounds like a diversion to me. Get the nukes off the front page.


3 posted on 12/19/2009 3:53:53 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft (This isn't my America any more, where is Mrs Cleaver?)
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To: La Enchiladita

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-10_Thunderbolt_II


4 posted on 12/19/2009 3:55:56 PM PST by mowowie
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To: La Enchiladita
additional:
5 posted on 12/19/2009 3:55:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv (My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft
Exactly, they are learning all of Axelrods tricks and quickly.
6 posted on 12/19/2009 3:57:15 PM PST by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: mowowie; pnh102

Do the Iraqis have an Air Force?


7 posted on 12/19/2009 3:58:18 PM PST by La Enchiladita (The debate over "healthcare" legislation is making me SICK.)
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To: La Enchiladita

‘Course, the impostor from Kenya will do absolutely zilch about it.


8 posted on 12/19/2009 3:59:46 PM PST by LibWhacker (America awake!)
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To: La Enchiladita

Translation of title: F U America and your homo President.


9 posted on 12/19/2009 4:01:48 PM PST by my small voice (A biased media and an uneducated public is the biggest threat to our democracy)
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Would this be happening if the Bush administration was here?


10 posted on 12/19/2009 4:04:10 PM PST by ColdOne (ColdOne (Vote them out!))
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To: LibWhacker

Who is the U.S. ambassador to Iraq these days, I wonder....?


11 posted on 12/19/2009 4:04:36 PM PST by La Enchiladita (The debate over "healthcare" legislation is making me SICK.)
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To: La Enchiladita

Oh man! Those Iranians are just begging for another sternly worded letter from the UN, aren’t they!


12 posted on 12/19/2009 4:09:07 PM PST by FMBass ("Now that I'm sober I watch a lot of news"- Garofalo from Coulter's "Treason")
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To: my small voice

Kenyan will apologize and there will be peace!


13 posted on 12/19/2009 4:10:44 PM PST by Leo Carpathian (fffffFRrrreeeeepppeeee-ssed!)
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To: La Enchiladita
Who is the U.S. ambassador to Iraq these days, I wonder....?
14 posted on 12/19/2009 4:11:12 PM PST by VanDeKoik (Iran doesnt have a 2nd admendment. Ya see how that turned out?)
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To: La Enchiladita

They sure ain’t afraid of Baby Obozo so why not take an oil field?

Mary Christ-mas


15 posted on 12/19/2009 4:12:34 PM PST by bray (Palin can see the White House from her Porch)
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To: La Enchiladita

an utter policy wimp who earned his ‘appeasement stripes’ in the peace corp.

http://iraq.usembassy.gov/iraq/ambassador.html


16 posted on 12/19/2009 4:13:03 PM PST by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: La Enchiladita
More Nobel Peace Prizes are needed!
Hurry, call Oslo!





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The Evil Dictators and Mullahs can just smell the weakness in this feeble neophyte. He will roll over for them when Ahmadinejad is through with him.

Pray for our troops.
The Commander-in-Chief has been figured out as a toothless pussycat by the Mullahs.
They are right.

17 posted on 12/19/2009 4:13:56 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: my small voice

From the Iranians to Obama:

How now, brown cow?


18 posted on 12/19/2009 4:14:08 PM PST by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease!")
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To: La Enchiladita

what foreign corporation just bought that well? lol.


19 posted on 12/19/2009 4:17:14 PM PST by GeronL
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To: La Enchiladita

in training with T-6’s or something


20 posted on 12/19/2009 4:17:48 PM PST by GeronL
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