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To: bentway who wrote (43882)	5/1/2005 2:15:35 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

U.S. Experts Voice Concerns Over Iraq Oil Minister Reuters logo Thursday, April 28, 2005 6:26 p.m. ET By Tom Doggett WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraq's choice of Ahmad Chalabi as acting oil minister has raised concerns that he is not the best person for the job because he has little energy experience and was once convicted of bank fraud, U.S. energy experts said on Thursday. Oil is Iraq's chief source of revenue as the nation struggles to rebuild. Iraq now produces about 1.9 million barrels of crude oil a day and will try to boost output as it slowly repairs and replaces obsolete technology. "You are to some extent, from the perceptions of many Iraqis, putting a fox in charge of the henhouse," said Anthony Cordesman, referring to Chalabi. Cordesman is a Middle East expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies based in Washington. Chalabi is taking over the ministry at a critical time. It must make decisions on which companies get preference for oil sales, which contracts are honored and which will be renegotiated. The ministry also faces frequent sabotage against its oil pipelines. "(Chalabi) is going to make it extremely easy for people to make charges about corruption and raise questions on how the oil money is distributed," said Cordesman. In 1992, a Jordanian military court found Chalabi guilty of bank fraud. He denied the charges, fled Jordan and filed a lawsuit in the United States accusing the Jordanian government of framing him.... wireservice.wired.com ========== Some idiot woman flees her marriage and lies about being kidnapped and that gets precedence over the WAR in Iraq. Does anyone in the US of A remember that we're supposedly in a war?