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Oil revenue being diverted to insurgency
Iraq's finance minister believes that 40 percent to 50 percent of black-market oil revenues are going to the insurgency, the New York Times reported Saturday.I'm sorry, I just can't go to the NYT anymore. Ali Allawi said insurgents have infiltrated management at the Baiji oil refinery and are using their positions to divert oil. "It's gone beyond Nigeria levels now where it really threatens national security," Allawi told the Times. "The insurgents are involved at all levels." Meshaan al-Juburi, a Sunni member of the Iraqi National Assembly, has been charged with stealing millions of dollars that was supposed to be used for pipeline protection, said Radhi Hamza al-Radhi, the chairman of the Commission on Public Integrity. The director of an oil storage facility near Kirkuk was charged Saturday with helping to arrange an attack on the plant. Radhi said armed guards did not prevent an attack on a 60-truck convoy from Baiji to Baghdad. Posted by: trailing wife 2006-02-05 |
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