https://freerepublic.com/tag/khoralamaya/ en-us Tue, 3 Mar 2009 12:49:38 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198007/posts ..."Urgent news media has just been published in many media, including the channel of East .. Confirm the occupation of territory, including a new island (or lead) by Iran, Iraq, as reported breaking news that the Iranian Foreign Ministry today demanded the inclusion of the port of Iraqi civilian side ..!.." muslm.net via al-Jazeera https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2198007/posts#comment Tue, 3 Mar 2009 12:49:38 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1404659/posts The Democratic opposition in the US Congress pointed to a US role in diverting funds managed by the regime of Saddam Hussein, arguing that American authorities had facilitated the smuggling of Iraqi oil in early 2003. "We need to look into the mirror at ourselves, as well as point fingers at others," said Democratic Senator Carl Levin. According to a report presented by Levin, which cites communications between the navy and merchant ships, "on occasion, the US actually facilitated the illicit oil sales, as happened in the Khor al-Amaya incident in 2003." This incident involves the largest single illicit sale... AFP https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1404659/posts#comment Tue, 17 May 2005 07:46:28 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1166482/posts MARITIME DEFENSE KHOR AL AMAYA OIL TERMINAL, Iraq, July 1 — The oil wealth that Iraq is counting on as its best hope for a stable future flows through rattling pipelines to lonely, rusting depots 15 miles offshore, so isolated that an armada of American, British and Australian warships is circling them to prevent the threat of waterborne suicide attackers. Even little fishing dhows that ply the waters of the Persian Gulf have been guarded against, since attackers in three boats sped toward Khor al Amaya and its larger sister terminal, Al Basra, and blew themselves up on April 24.... NY Times https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1166482/posts#comment Wed, 7 Jul 2004 00:09:10 GMT