Iraq oil

As I mentioned yesterday, if we can't get control of Iraq oil, we may need to "take advantage" of the Saudi Arabia terror attacks. Maybe when we officially pull out of Iraq at the end of this month, we can divert our troops to "securing" the Saudi oil fields. Perhaps the royal family will be less "insurgent" than those crazy Iraqis. Especially considering their long, close relationship with the Bush Crime Family.

Gunmen killed Ghazi Talabani, 70, a senior adviser in Iraq's North Oil Company, in the northern city of Kirkuk, in the latest of many attacks on Iraqis accused by insurgents as collaborating with the U.S.-British occupation.

Police said Talabani was shot as he was being driven to work. His driver was badly wounded. The gunmen escaped.

Manna al-Ubeidi, a senior official of the company, said Talabani, a second cousin of Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani, was a popular figure who had refused to employ bodyguards.

An Iraqi official said all crude oil exports from southern Gulf ports had stopped after saboteurs hit pipelines feeding the Basra and Khor al-Amaya terminals this week. Sabotage had already stopped exports via a northern pipeline to Turkey.

  Reuters article