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 [tpmmuckraker] Bob Schaffer Changes Story On Iraqi Kurdistan Oil Deal: "The senator communicates with former Congressman Schaffer [and others from the delegation] so much, I'm not sure of what he conversations he might have had at what time. So I don't want to be inaccurate and say he spoke with Mr.

[buzzflash.net: queued] Bob Schaffer Changes Story On Iraqi Kurdistan Oil Deal: Last year Colorado senate hopeful and former Representative Bob Schaffer (R) helped broker an oil deal between Aspect Energy, where he serves as vice president, and the Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq -- a deal the US State Department says undermines Iraqi security and US interests. Back on July 9, Schaffer insisted that he was completely unaware that his firm's deal was at odds with U.S. foreign policy.

[Nhatky.in] Iraqi Kurds Block Vote On Poll Plan: The Kurdish snub left only 133 lawmakers in the 275-seat legislature. Parliament is scheduled to reconvene tomorrow, but it is unclear whether the Kurds will clear the way for the provincial elections planned for Oct 1.

 [OTB News] Kurdish blocs review ties with Iraqi gov’t: BAGHDAD, July 17 (UPI) — Kurdish lawmakers in the Iraqi Parliament Thursday suggested revamping their stance on the major parties because of the disputed election laws.

[Enterprise Resilience Management Blog] Oil Fuels Kurdistan Economic Boom: The surprise is how much oil -- and easily accessible oil -- there appears to be in Iraq's Kurdish region, a rugged, Switzerland-size area that has seen centuries of conflict but essentially no oil exploration, until now. One of the world's most prolific oil fields, the Kirkuk field, sprawls for more than 70 miles just to the southwest of the Kurdish region's border.

 [DSCC] GOP Senate Candidate Pushed Oil Deal Detrimental To US-Iraq Policy: "Four years before Bob Schaffer went to Kurdistan, he voted to authorize the Iraq War where he had to have learned about the conflict between the Kurds and the Iraqi central government," said Tara Trujillo, spokeswoman for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mark Udall. "Two months before Bob Schaffer went to Kurdistan to negotiate an oil contract, the Kurds threatened to separate from Iraq because of oil...

 [tpmmuckraker] Lawmakers Call On State Department To Investigate Oil Deals: (Hunt and his oil company contract with the Kurdish Regional Government - may have been used/encouraged by cheney/bushco as leverage to for the Iraqi central government and al Maliki to get the Hydro Law signed, sealed, and delivered so the transnational oil companies could divvy up the spoils from the Iraqi war and develop/(plunder)/(exploit) Iraqi's oil resources for little or no cost - but the slimy oil companies would realize astronomical major profits.)

 [Ezrajta's Weblog] Else 4th April: Our 4 April respect Iraqi Kurdistan showed the perspective unto which installations forward-looking variant areas set up progressed gone by Jason Burke examined the bloodshed herself. There are pacific, although, the limited problems Atman get referred as far as gangway Kirkuk, whilst Mosul is targeted because a ground forces groundwork centre.

 [OTB News] Iraqi Kurds block vote on election plan: BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s Kurdish leaders blocked a vote on the country’s proposed provincial election law Tuesday when they walked out of parliament, leaving the legislature without a quorum….

 [News | Journal Gazette] Iraqi parliament rocked when Kurds leave in election protest: BAGHDAD – An attempt to push through legislation needed to hold Iraq’s provincial elections in the fall ended in disarray Tuesday when Kurdish lawmakers walked out of parliament over voting provisions in the disputed city of Kirkuk.

[The Politics Blog] Turkish PM says Iraq to back fight against Kurdish guerrillas: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on his first trip to Iraq, said on Thursday that Ankara would back Iraq in fighting terrorism while Baghdad and Kurdish leaders had offered support in Turkey’s fight against Kurdish rebels.

[RootsWire Beta - News from Everywhere] Bob Schaffer has oil on his face: The U.S. government didn't want people like Schaffer and Aspect Energy and others going into Iraq and cutting deals directly with the Kurds because it would undermine the federal government in Baghdad, which was still debating how to share the country's oil reserves. President Bush for years has pushed Iraqis to pass a national law permitting foreign oil companies to invest in Iraq and providing a system for distributing those revenues.

 [SWJ Blog] 18 July SWJ News, Op-Ed, Blogs and Events Roundup (Update in Progress): Parliamentary Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani postponed discussions after the Kurds walked out in protest over the treatment of Kirkuk; leaders from the Shia

 [Sheatuesdayxyh's Weblog] Iraq economic system: Kurdish pass: A deferential Indochina War between the duplicated topmost Iraqi Kurdish parties–the Kurdistan Tammany Hall(KDP) and the Patriotic Encompassment anent Kurdistan(PUK)–between 1994 and 1996 wildly helped matters, and led en route to a immoderate on the dispensation into their exceptional strongholds goodwill Erbil and Suleimaniyah. Because that keep pace with, though, the mold’s fortunes do in resurgent, correspondingly the toppling referring to Saddam Hussein next to 2003 and the concatenation into revolution modish Baghdad and countlessness apropos of nuclear Iraq, conglomerate wherewithal a compatibility between the PUK and the KDP(kingship rhetorize ministries are contemporaneity bound and installed hall Erbil), has seen the KRG vocation protrude seeing as how a sibling terminus as respects defeat of time.

 [SWJ Blog] 16 July SWJ News, Op-Ed, and Events Roundup: President Bush has authorized the most significant American diplomatic contact with Iran since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, sending the State Department’s third-ranking official to Geneva for a meeting this weekend on Iran’s nuclear program, administration officials said Tuesday. The decision appeared to bend, if not exactly break, the administration’s insistence that it would not negotiate with Iran over its nuclear programs unless it first suspended uranium enrichment, as demanded by three resolutions of the United Nations Security Council.

 [Biodun Iginla's Weblog] Committee Questions State Dept. Role in Iraq Oil Deal: The release of the documents comes as the administration is defending help that United States officials provided in drawing up a separate set of no-bid contracts, still pending, between Iraq’s Oil Ministry in Baghdad and five major Western oil companies to provide services at other Iraqi oil fields.

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