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Where are the U.S. oil companies? The unknown of Iraq’s oil contracts

As Iraq’s Oil Min­istry adviser Thamir Ghad­hban noticed the absence of the Amer­i­can Oil com­pa­nies from Iraq’s oil auc­tion, and Russ­ian RT sur­prised that U.S. com­pa­nies did not show great inter­est — con­trary to the  expec­ta­tions — in the sec­ond … Con­tinue read­ing

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Twenty-two Arab lies – divided on twenty-two Arab countries

Egypt­ian writer Adil Al-Samri counts 22 lies in the Arab sum­mits: 1– The uni­fied Arab army and the Arab com­mon defense agree­ment, (It was signed 59 years ago, and been imple­mented so far). 2– Arabs united will, (The real­ity says that … Con­tinue read­ing

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Obama — King Abdullah’s phone call

Obama spoke to King Abdul­lah of Saudi Ara­bia is the head­line on every Saudi news­pa­per today. Maybe this explains the phone call: “Obama’s energy pol­icy will increase depen­dence on for­eign oil”.

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Who wants Bashir’s head? Follow the oil pipelines and the Israeli lobby

Expert in Sudan’s affairs Akram Hos­sam from the National Cen­ter for Africa and the Mid­dle East Stud­ies, saysread this post: Does the Save Dar­fur Coali­tion Have a Hid­den Pro-Israel Agenda?] played a big role to raise the inter­na­tional pub­lic opin­ion: … Con­tinue read­ing

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The other side of the aggression: Gaza’s natural Gas

Arti­cle on Assafir today: Accord­ing Oil and Gas jour­nal, Israel wants to reduce its depen­den­cies on the Egypt­ian gas for two rea­sons: — Egypt recently wants to increase the price of gas with the import­ing coun­tries, espe­cially Israel [See: Egypt … Con­tinue read­ing

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Travel to Syria ban on military officers

It is not about the approval of Secu­rity Agree­ment by the Pres­i­den­tial Coun­cil, there are much more impor­tant devel­op­ments today. — Not long time ago I reported about some kind of con­nec­tion between the Geor­gia — Rus­sia war and the Iraqi … Con­tinue read­ing

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Strange reports on the hijacked Saudi oil tanker

The story of the hijacked Saudi oil tanker “Sir­ius Star” is esca­lat­ing but yet there are few con­fus­ing reports on the Saudi media. The strange thing is what Saudi funded news­pa­per AL-Sharq AL-Awsat reported this morn­ing: The Saudi bor­der guards denied … Con­tinue read­ing

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Iraqi Oil Union challenges Shell

It is not about the con­tract buty Shell said that they will employ for­eign work­ers in their Oil project in Iraq. Source from the Iraqi oil Union reported on Al-Badeel yes­ter­day that Shell’s “foreign-workers” is a red line and what … Con­tinue read­ing

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Arabs honeymoon with Obama ended

The first bold reac­tion came from the head of the “Islamic Schol­ars World Fed­er­a­tion” Yusuf al-Qaradawi who described Obama as a hyp­ocrite “snake” dis­guised as a mod­er­a­tor and dan­ger on Mus­lim and Islam. Qaradawi said that he pre­ferred McCain as an … Con­tinue read­ing

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Delegation of the Egyptian Ministry of Oil in a secret visit to Iraq

Egypt­ian news­pa­per Almasry-alyoum reported today that an Egypt­ian del­e­ga­tion from the Oil Min­istry in a secret visit to search for oppor­tu­ni­ties for the par­tic­i­pa­tion of Egypt­ian oil com­pa­nies in infra­struc­ture projects, reha­bil­i­ta­tion of basic oil projects in Iraq. This is report … Con­tinue read­ing

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