Re: US corporation signs huge oil deal In Iraq but War was not about oil they claimed
really? does this sound like the government is excluded?
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Exxon declined to comment, but** officials in Kurdistan confirmed that a contract had been signed on Oct. 18. On Sunday, the regional energy minister, Ashti Hawrami, told reporters at an oil conference in Erbil, the Kurdish capital, that Exxon had been awarded six exploration blocks.**
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In fact this shows Iraqi government is not a puppet regime of the USA which was the intended theme of the thread - that America has colonized Iraq and taking its oil!
Iraqi government is still working out its central-provincial accords. Exxon should be lauded for taking this risk