[left][font=Arial]Published on Monday, January 2, 2006 by the Associated Press [/font][/left]
[left][font=Arial] Iraq Oil Minister Resigns Under Pressure; Replaced with Chalabi [/font][/left]
[left][font=Arial]by Michael McCarthy[/font][/left]
[font=Arial] BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's oil minister said Monday he resigned after the government last week gave him a forced vacation and replaced him with Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi following criticism about fuel price increases.
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[/font] Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum said he quit because the government raised fuel prices by nine times on Dec. 19, a decision he had strongly criticized.
"This decision will not serve the benefit of the government and the people. This decision brings an extra burden on the shoulders of citizens and caused an increase in the prices of all essential materials. It also caused a reaction on the Iraqi streets," al-Uloum said.
The price increases and the mid-December closure of the country's biggest refinery led to protests in many cities around Iraq and riots in northern oil-rich Kirkuk, where police shot and killed four protesters during unrest Sunday.
Officials at the Beiji refinery reopened it Sunday nearly two weeks after shutting it down because of insurgent threats to kill drivers of fuel trucks.
"We started to supply the tankers with oil products after the government promised to secure them along the highways," said Ahmed Ibrahim Hamadi, the director of distribution at the refinery.
The decision came after the Iraqi army sent more troops to guard the tanker trucks that supply the capital, including its main storage facilities in Dora, and to other Iraqi cities.
"Well-equipped and developed Iraqi army and police forces are guarding all the tankers which are trucking oil products from Beiji refinery to Dora, to Baghdad and other provinces," said Maj. Gen. Abdul Aziz Mohamed-Jassim, director of the Defense Ministry's operations room.
Geez...how lucky can the Iraqi people get?! :p
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Finally! Chalabi gets a chance to show his quality!!
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this guy has had lined his scandalous pockets for a while it seems...
www.juancole.com/2005/01/chalabi-to-be-arrested-political.htmlWurm said:
[left][font=Arial]Published on Monday, January 2, 2006 by the Associated Press [/font][/left]
[left][font=Arial]Iraq Oil Minister Resigns Under Pressure; Replaced with Chalabi [/font][/left]
[left][font=Arial]by Michael McCarthy[/font][/left]
[font=Arial]BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's oil minister said Monday he resigned after the government last week gave him a forced vacation and replaced him with Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi following criticism about fuel price increases.
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[/font]Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum said he quit because the government raised fuel prices by nine times on Dec. 19, a decision he had strongly criticized.
Geez...how lucky can the Iraqi people get?! :p
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Wurm said:
Geez...how lucky can the Iraqi people get?! :pI was wondering how 'Lucky' Chalibi could get with his fingers in so many pies at once... Taking pay from the CIA, skimming dosh on weapons sales, a relative in charge of trying Saddam and now he gets his paws on the *potential* main source of revenue for Iraq.
It is rather sad to watch such blatant cronyism in action, but not at all surprising, particularly given the corruption surrounding the US side of things.
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That was exactly my point db, when I posted this news clip about this felon and charlatan Chalabi. Lower than whale [censored] he is, and the world can expect nothing better from his overlords at BushCo.
It is yet another incredibly self-centered, greedy, and arrogant act on the part of the Neo Cons, and is the reason they invaded Iraq in the first place: to control its oil and the profits thereof. Chalabi has always been an integral part of that plan.
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