Kurds speak out against key oil law

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Kurds speak out against key oil law

Published: July 11, 2007

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq: Kurdish leaders on Wednesday spoke
out against a key oil law, raising further doubts over efforts
to pass one of the political benchmarks sought by the United
States at a time when the Bush administration is trying to
fend off critics of its Iraq policy.

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But attempts to pass the bill have been blocked by multiple
disputes within al-Maliki's coalition, including a boycott of
parliament by his Sunni Arab partners.

The Kurds made clear Wednesday they oppose the latest draft
of the bill, which al-Maliki said on July 3 had been approved
unanimously by his Cabinet. His aides say the draft was passed
after changes were made to an earlier version Kurds had said
they supported.

The top oil official in the Kurd's northern autonomous zone
rejected those changes. The amendments "reduce the powers
of the (Kurdish) region and should not be approved," Kurdistan's
Natural Resource Minister Ashti Hawrami told a joint meeting of
the Iraqi and Kurdish regional parliaments in the northern city
of Irbil.

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Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/11/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Oil-Law.php

[Nickster]

1. Boy, that democracy sure is hard work. Why don't they all just fall in line already?/sarcasm

[acmavm]

2. Fools! Don't they understand that the sooner they give us

every damn last drop of oil they have, the sooner we can get it out of the ground, and the sooner we can leave. They're just doing this to themselves.

:sarcasm:

[azurnoir]

3. The Kurds want one thing

A free Kurdistan, that's it nothing more nothing less. They will not give up their oil revenue's as ransom for their freedom. Do expect to hear more Kurdish "terrorist" or Kurdish female abuse stories in the near future though.

[MasonJar]

4. al-Maliki is selling out his country. There is no way that the Iraqis,

a very educated people, would sign away their rights to their major source of income if they were well informed. The US government should be stopped from such a cruel agenda.

[azurnoir]

5. That has been

the BFEE's agenda since day one, which is a much longer time ago then one might first think.