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West sees glittering prizes ahead in giant oilfields [in Iraq]:

Iraq has oil reserves of 112billion barrels, second only to Saudi Arabia, which has some 265billion barrels. Iraqi reserves are seven times those of the combined UK and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea. But the prize for oil companies could be even greater. Iraq estimates that its eventual reserves could be as high as 220billion barrels.

Three giant southern fields – Majnoon, West Qurna and Nahr Umar have the capacity to produce as much as Kuwait. The first two could each equal Qatar’s production of 700,000 barrels a day. “There is nothing like it anywhere else in the world. Its the big prize,” Mr Butt said.

Our pinocchio in Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, has to be getting a little worried as his corrupt government disintegrates before his eyes. Frequent assassinations and assassination attempts are not a good sign that the people feel you are leading them in the right direction. That’s why he is considering an offer from the west to provide him ‘international peacekeepers’ as bodyguards. Let’s hope the Afghan people, the descendants of the great Khans and the Turkic hordes can overthrow this farce.

Under pressure from civil liberties groups to release the names and status of illegally held detainees, the Federal government has been been quickly deporting most of the people it kidnapped in the wake of Sept. 11. No doubt in some cases, these people who were never charged with a crime, will be passed along to pro-US states where they will likely be tortured and detained further. See the US is officially against torture, but it likes to have friends who can get their hands dirty.

NY Times had a good article on the Warez scene. I can’t believe the jail sentences these guys got, four years in one guy’s case. Just goes to show what happens when you present a threat to the engines of Capital. They throw the book at you. Rapists get off with lighter sentences.

Bush turns a blind eye while Israel ushers in it’s own mini-Reich. Israel has undertaken efforts to occupy all of Palestine, take over East Jerusalem, and has passed racist legislation which will prevent non-Jews from owning land in Israeli settlements. I don’t really see how this differs from anything the Nazi’s did during World War II. If anything, the Israelis are displaying a dangerous mix of amnesia, race hatred, and, above all, hypocrisy. It is the height of insanity to claim eternal victim status while you assassinate, murder, and crush an ethnic minority. I hope I live to see the day when Israel collapses under the weight of its pride and arrogance.

• Ha’Aretz: A racist bill: These tortuous formulations were designed to soften opposition to the bill, but they fail to conceal the fact that its primary purpose is to prevent non-Jewish citizens of the state from living in certain places, in violation of fundamental civil rights.
• Israelis kill top militant More Israeli assassinations performed outside the law. So much for due process.
• Military chief anxious to step up Gaza assault
• Israel targets Palestinian moderate Liquidating the opposition…even the moderates.

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