Surging toward the holy oil grail by Pepe Escobar

by KEARNEY | January 11, 2007 at 04:30 pm | 208 views | 1 comment

Surging toward the holy oil
grail
If
a new
oil law friendly to Western business is passed
in Iraq, the chances of Shi'ite cleric Muqtada
al-Sadr's Mehdi Army joining the Sunni resistance
will increase dramatically.
Hence the preemptive,
two-pronged escalation by President George W
Bush on the war front - against both Muqtada and
nationalist Sunnis. - Pepe Escobar
(Jan 11,
'07)

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KEARNEY

at 16:34 on January 11th, 2007

Opening shots in new battle for
Baghdad

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's new
plan for Baghdad involves Iraqi forces -
including Kurdish fighters - supported by US-led
coalition troops, conducting
neighborhood-by-neighborhood sweeps to eliminate
extremist groups. The initiative has already
been denounced as unconstitutional, if not plain
unworkable, and could be Maliki's last throw of
the dice. (Jan
11,