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2003-May-17 ![[this day]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/images/dailyLinkIcon.gif)
Iraq may soon break the OPEC cartel
Washington Post:
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The U.S. executive selected by the Pentagon to advise Iraq's Ministry of Oil suggested today that the country might best be served by exporting as much oil as it can and disregarding quotas set by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.Philip J. Carroll, formerly head of Royal Dutch Shell in the USA,
signaled that oil contracts signed under the old regime are now potentially void or subject to renegotiation.What a concept: to simultaneously undermine France, Russia, and OPEC.
The choices French diplomacy made
Françoise Thom:
In its foreign policy, France has in a way put on the boots of the defunct Soviet Union: same obstructionist policy at the UN, same third-world-ist demagoguery, same alliance with the Arab world, [and] same ambition to take the lead in a coalition of "anti-imperialist" states against Washington. ... The anti-American obsession means that France is less than inquisitive as to the nature of regimes to which it lends its support in the name of multipolarity. Iraq, Algeria, Zimbabwe, Sudan: in a word, France seems to get on better with the rogue states and failed states than with the United States whose civilization it shares [sic]. It claims to defend international law by leaning on states that ignore all laws.[via the excellent Watch: covering the war on terror]
Al Qaeda, creature of the House of Saud
Stephen Schwartz, author of The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud from Tradition to Terror, describes the ties between Saudi Arabia and al Qaeda (WSJ):
The Monday bombings in Riyadh are only the latest evidence that the Saudi government cannot and will not suppress extremism. The wake-up calls keep coming, but the U.S. refuses to recognize the kingdom's involvement with terrorism. In the weeks leading up to the bombing, it is now reported that the U.S. requested additional security at American compounds based on intercepted communications. It was a familiar pattern, and one that a nation now experienced in terror talk and embassy bombings knew to take seriously. But the Saudis didn't come through--the compound was left vulnerable, even on the eve of a visit to the country by Colin Powell. ... On Saudi territory, al Qaeda enjoys vast resources in the ranks of the clerical hierarchy and the state. ... The state religious dispensation, the Wahhabi sect of Islam, preaches violence against non-Wahhabi Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus and others.The twin hearts of Islamofascism are in Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Ceterum censeo, delenda est Mecca.