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2003-04-09 Europe

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Posted by Showme 2003-04-09 12:04 am|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Who's going to help with arresting oil tankers -- the Russian navy? Please.

Posted by Steve White 2003-04-09 00:39:50|| 2003-04-09 00:39:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Send in the Sopranos. I'm sure they could cut a deal with the LUKoil mafiosos... or else.

Posted by RW 2003-04-09 00:55:52|| 2003-04-09 00:55:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Iraq scrapped the deal in 2002.

How? Tear up the contract? Ignore the russkies?

Posted by Anonymous 2003-04-09 00:56:46|| 2003-04-09 00:56:46|| Front Page Top

#4 TotalFinaElf? I think not.

Posted by someone 2003-04-09 01:16:55|| 2003-04-09 01:16:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes...TotalFinaElf and LUKOil force the Russian and French Navies to move out to interdict the oil tankers. I see it now...

Tangentially, in the Russo-Japanese War, didn't Russia almost trigger war with Britain by torpedoing British fishing ships in the North Sea because they were presumed by the Imperial Russian Navy to be Japanese?

Posted by Brian 2003-04-09 07:09:56|| 2003-04-09 07:09:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Hell, bring it on! Our lawyers are better than their lawyers. They've had DECADES of experience tying stuff up in court.
This must be further proof that Sammy's dead. Otherwise, shouldn't they be threatening to sue HIM, since he's the one who reneged last year?
How the hell do you arrest an oil field, anyway? I can see detaining a ship (if you had a navy capable of doing that, which they don't), but a piece of land??

Posted by Former Russian Major 2003-04-09 07:53:13|| 2003-04-09 07:53:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Brian -- I don't think they did, because the North Sea is off of Britain, far away from the Pacific. Japanese boats would have little, if any, reason to be there. There is a pretty good website at www.russojapanesewar.com that has info on that conflict, if you are interested.

Posted by Former Russian Major 2003-04-09 08:09:34|| 2003-04-09 08:09:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Speaking of blood for oil...

Posted by Hiryu 2003-04-09 08:13:33|| 2003-04-09 08:13:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Silly LUKOil. The West Qurna field is only one of many oil fields in Iraq. If they get belligerent about it, pump the other fields for 8 years, feed Iraq and rebuild from the proceeds, then have Iraq start pumping again after the 8 years is up.

Posted by Tadderly 2003-04-09 08:14:38|| 2003-04-09 08:14:38|| Front Page Top

#10 How the hell do you arrest an oilfield?

"Ok, put up your pumps and freeze!"

Posted by mojo 2003-04-09 09:53:17|| 2003-04-09 09:53:17|| Front Page Top

#11 So a Russian company is going to sue the US into honering a contract that a was broken by a third party? I'll bet the left doesn't care if Russian "Big Oil" gets a blood-for-oil deal. Hypocrosy at it's most obvious. The part about ".. Punishing Russia for it's moderate position in the UN" is what really gets me. Moderate?

Posted by Mike N. 2003-04-09 11:37:08|| 2003-04-09 11:37:08|| Front Page Top

#12 Actually the term 'Arrest' here comes from Maritime/Admiralty law and means to 'set aside a cargo until ownership can be determined'. When salvagers find a shipwreck they petition a Maritime court to 'arrest' the ship laying on the bottom of the ocean so as to prevent other salvagers from enfringing on their claim.

Posted by ShowMe 2003-04-09 11:41:26|| 2003-04-09 11:41:26|| Front Page Top

#13 I wonder if the Iraqi people will consider that oil field Russia's.

Can't ignore them.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-04-09 12:51:04|| 2003-04-09 12:51:04|| Front Page Top

#14 Who what where when? Who will be sued. What is the real issue. What court has jurisdiction. When does the show start, I need to get some beer and pop some corn.

dorf

Posted by Anonymous 2003-04-09 16:33:43|| 2003-04-09 16:33:43|| Front Page Top

#15 Ok Showme,but how does Maritime law have authority on land?

Posted by raptor 2003-04-10 08:21:46|| 2003-04-10 08:21:46|| Front Page Top

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