Laura Rozen: Chalabi to take over oil ministry?

[Barrett808]

Chalabi to take over oil ministry? So the FT hears:

Meanwhile, Iraqi oil officials quoted by Dow Jones said yesterday that the deputy prime minister Ahmed Chalabi would take over the oil ministry, replacing Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum, who has taken a month’s leave. Mr Bahr al-Ulum is reported to be disgruntled with the current government and earlier this month threatened to resign over a rise in oil prices.

(Thx to reader SH).

Posted by Laura at December 27, 2005 04:21 PM

http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/003374.html

[louis-t]

1. What? Again?

He was Oil Minister once already.

[yellowcanine]

2. "Now Mr. Fox, you take care of the hens in that henhouse."

[dmkinsey]

3. Fox. Henhouse.

Synergy

[Alpharetta]

4. They produce less oil now than during UN sanctions

It's not as if Challabi is going to do any better. Investment in rusted oil infrastructure has lagged because the investments are not safe from government takeover or from sabotage. The pipelines are hit constantly. The only saving grace for the Iraq oil industry has been the rising price of crude.

I will say that I am envious of whoever runs the oil ministry because it is an excellent opportunity for embezzlement. Challabi is highly qualified.

[dicknbush]

5. The problem with this creep is.....

That as long as he is in the game he is dangerous. Just look at what he created by slinking around the back halls of the US congress and hanging with the likes of Cheney et al. He basically moved the illegal invasion of a country forward. He should be sent to Jordan to serve his sentence for fraud and embeselment then he might be neutralized for the long term.

[Vidar]

6. Hell put him in charge of FEMA--another crooked stooge.