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June 4 2009 Summary

Have you noticed that some of the things I’ve written in the Summary now are showing up a few days later in the media. It does help to establish credible contacts.

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Iraq Oil Minister

The Oil and Gas committee just asked for the Oil Ministry Hussein al-Shahristani for his resignation…this is developing.
More to follow.

Iraq’s Oil Chief Ready for Questions

I mentioned in one of my posts a few days ago that if Iraq does not improve their energy infrastructure and oil wells that Iraq oil exports will drop.
American Contractor Said:

Let’s hope they get to the 70 of the most important oil wells in Iraq that have been depleted due to bad extraction methods. I could make a list of how bad the Oil wells are but some other time. I will say the reports are that if nothing is done to get the production levels up very soon than the production level will start to drop from the current levels.

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3 June 2009 More Info

New developments in the cause of lifting the immunity from certain Parliament members may have come to a close. It looks like the immunity of those in parliament have been lifted on the condition that the Iraq Council of Representatives (CoR) withdraw there petitions to question the Ministries. The powers to be are asking that the (CoR) can only question Ministry members only when they have sufficient evidence of any wrong doing.

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