« New header design for zoomNicaragua.com | Home | Skype has caller ID in US now!!! »
Iraq’s Insurgency Runs on Stolen Oil Profits
By Baker Jeff | June 11, 2008
Ghalib Ali Hamid, the intelligence and internal affairs chief at the Baiji oil refinery in Iraq, was arrested on suspicion of skimming profits and having ties to insurgents.
Ghalib Ali Hamid, the intelligence and internal affairs chief at the Baiji oil refinery in Iraq, was arrested on suspicion of skimming profits and having ties to insurgents.
BAIJI, Iraq — The Baiji refinery, with its distillation towers rising against the Hamrin Mountains, may be the most important industrial site in the Sunni Arab-dominated regions of Iraq. On a good day, 500 tanker trucks will leave the refinery filled with fuel with a street value of $10 million.
Read full story from the New York Times here
Topics: Uncategorized |