Which got us absolutely nothing which makes it somewhat of a dead point. We obviously didn't set up 9/11 to go there for oil as we're not getting any oil.
Interseting. My uncle is Special Forces and we have a close relationship. He tells me about some of his missions at the Al Basra Oil Terminal. He said they went in there in January of 2003 (2 months before the Invasion) and secured what he called "key assets". He told me he wouldnt be able to go into detail. But what he could tell me shocked me.
After doing a little research and many years later, alot of this information became public knowledge. It's just amazing how many ties I found to President Bush's former Oil companies and Dick Cheney's as well.
Heavily armed soldiers spend their days at the oil terminals scanning the horizon looking for suicide bombers and stray fishing dhows (boats). Meanwhile, right under their noses, smugglers are suspected to be diverting an estimated billions of dollars worth of crude onto tankers because the oil metering system that is supposed monitor how much crude flows into and out of ABOT and KAAOT - has not worked since the March 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Officials blame the four-year delay in repairing the relatively simple system on "security problems." Others point to the failed efforts of the two U.S. companies hired to repair the southern oil fields, fix the two terminals, and the meters:
Halliburton of Houston, Texas, and Parsons of Pasadena, California. The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) is scheduled to publish a report this spring that is expected criticize the companies' failure to complete the work. Rumors are rife among suspicious Iraqis about the failure to measure the oil flow. "Iraq is the victim of the biggest robbery of its oil production in modern history," blazed a March 2006 headline in Azzaman, Iraq's most widely read newspaper. A May 2006 study of oil production and export figures by Platt's Oilgram News, an industry magazine, showed that up to $3 billion a year is unaccounted for.