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2002-12-12 Axis of Evil

Russian stake in Iraqi oil project in doubt

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Posted by Steve 2002-12-12 02:07 pm|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Do not poke the bear."

Posted by Ptah 2002-12-12 14:24:45|| 2002-12-12 14:24:45|| Front Page Top

#2 More bad news: The body of Sadi Sharifov, the father of Vagit Sharifov, a Lukoil vice-president, was found by a roadside 60km south-west of the Georgian capital Tbilisi, David Stern reports. He had been kidnapped from his home 10 days ago and apparently died of a heart attack while in captivity.
They seem to think he was kidnapped for ransom, a growth industry in Georgia.

Posted by Steve 2002-12-12 14:45:15|| 2002-12-12 14:45:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Russia's entire refusal to support Bush was based on economics. Have the Iraqis gone mad?

This may be the stupidist thing they have done.

Posted by Chuck 2002-12-12 15:04:35|| [www.simmins.org] 2002-12-12 15:04:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Russia's reluctance to support the US actually made sense - from Moscow's viewpoint anyway - because they had such a critically big investment in Iraq. Now Saddam has gone and yanked the rug out from under them. Smooth move, guys; REAL smooth. If Russia still had any Guards Tank Armies left, I bet Vladimir Putin would be offering a couple of them to GWB for the coalition right about now. More realistically, one may look for Russia to review that 12,000-page Iraqi declaration with a gimlet eye - and a rather more skeptical one than they might have a few days earlier.

Posted by Joe 2002-12-12 17:59:58|| 2002-12-12 17:59:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Privately, the Ruskies were always on side. Putin did the calc and it came us USA. What other result could it have been - status quo? Harldly. But they (and the froggies and leiderhosen crowd also) are all on board except when maintaining their public image. When the rubber hits the road everyone will want to be seen on the bandwagon to Baghdad.

Posted by Jack 2002-12-13 05:44:28|| 2002-12-13 05:44:28|| Front Page Top

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