a picture is worth a thousand words...pipeline routes etc..

[stillcool]

[stop the bleeding]

1. or

a million lives / trazillions of dollars

[fed-up]

2. can you add 'arms exports-ME oil refineries routes" to your title? I bet

more people would click on this thread if you did.

Great maps/charts by the way.

[stillcool]

3. thank you....

:toast:

[starroute]

4. Don't forget the drug routes

Not quite the same tracks -- more east to west -- Afghanistan to Iran to Kurdistan to Turkey to Europe -- but they sure criss-cross the same territory.

[malaise]

5. Great thread

Thanks for the maps.

[Skink]

6. Oil pipelines and drug routes all protected by U.S. military bases.

Mission accomplished.

[flpoljunkie]

7. Do you have a link for these illustrations? Thanks!

[stillcool]

8. here's some...

....
http://www.bakerbotts.com/departments/practice_detail.aspx?id=183d6bbb-2536-4787-8987-777f08d44724
http://www.treemedia.com/cfrlibrary/library/policy/bremmermap.html

http://www.users.qwest.net/~kryopak/OilGasNews.htm
http://www.parstimes.com/Caspian.html

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/caspian2.html


http://www.treemedia.com/cfrlibrary/library/indexmaps/indexmaps.html

http://www.petroleumiran.com/maps.html

[flpoljunkie]

9. Thanks for the links, stillcool47!