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[document.no] Galbraiths oljeinteresser vekker oppsikt - document.no: Interviews by The New York Times with more than a dozen current and former government and business officials in Norway, France, Iraq, the United States and elsewhere, along with legal records and other documents, reveal in considerable detail that he received rights to an enormous stake in at least one of Kurdistan’s oil fields in the spring of 2004.

[Politics Daily] Peter Galbraith -- Rich, Dedicated, Sleeping Easy -- Politics Daily: Ms Goldstein has evidently not flicked through even the first few pages of "The End of Iraq", since she doesn't appear to be aware that Peter Galbraith took his first trip to Iraqi Kurdistan in September 1987, and that he has championed Kurdish self-determination ever since. Who else, but an altruist like Peter Galbraith, would dare to risk his career and credibility in Washington more than twenty years ago, documenting the crimes committed against Kurds by Saddam's regime during the genocidal Anfal campaign, and promoting the Kurdish cause which was extremely unpopular within the pro-Saddam US foreign policy establishment at the time?

[News From Antiwar.com] Former Ambassador Galbraith's Kurdistan Millions -- News from ...: As a Kurd, I am delighted to see that Peter Galbraith is rewarded for his more than 20 years of unflinching loyalty to Kurdish people and support for independent Kurdistan. He stood by our people through thick and thin, helped document the crimes committed against us by Saddam Hussein's regime during the genocidal Anfal campaign, initiated informal meetings with low-ranking state department officials who were avoiding Masoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani as though they were from a leper colony, and championed the Kurdish cause at great risk to his own political ambitions.

[The Daily Beast - Cheat Sheet] Galbraith's Oil Windfall - The Daily Beast: Certainly bungling into Iraq and destabilizing an entire global region, allowing the assassination of virtually the entire moderate political and religious leadership element in the first ninety days, solely empowering the violent fringe ,returning the nation's women to caveman times, while loosing billions of American dollars to the global black market along with arms of all sizes when performed by US governemnt in its offical capacity and Blackqwater in its profiteering capacity has not raised many media hackles.

[Rocket News] American Adviser to Kurds Stands to Reap Oil Profits (source: New ...: Galbraith, an influential former American ambassador, could earn millions of dollars as a result of his closeness to the Kurds and his financial ties with a Norwegian oil company. (source: New York Times) - RSS and News widget .

[JustOneMinute] JustOneMinute: No Blood For Oil. Well, Unless It Is For Democrats.: In the constitutional negotiations, he helped the Kurds ram through provisions that gave their region ”” rather than the central Baghdad government ”” sole authority over many of their internal affairs, including clauses that he maintains will give the Kurds virtually complete control over all new oil finds on their territory.

[Raw Story] Former US diplomat could make 'hundreds of millions' off Iraqi oil ...: and they were stripping all provisions that established a Socialism in Iraq (what the Iraqi people wanted) and preventing language from being put in that would have blocked foreign businesses from owning _anything_ in Iraq.. And Iraq wanted to unify their country, but we knew it would be harder to make oil deals with one body, so we wanted 3 regions in charge of their own oil (forced competition that would benefit the U.S. and other countries).

[Dear Kitty. Some blog] Dear Kitty. Some blog :: US official gets hundreds of millions in ...: Yesterday the New York Times reported the Norwegian financial newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv's revelations that Peter Galbraith, a former US diplomat and advisor to the Kurdish regional government in northern Iraq, stands to make hundreds .

[WELCOME TO MY NEW WORLD] WELCOME TO MY NEW WORLD - American Advisor to Kurds Stands to Reap ...: “The idea that an oil company was participating in the drafting of the Iraqi Constitution leaves me speechless,” said Feisal Amin al-Istrabadi, a principal drafter of the law that governed Iraq after the United States ceded control to an Iraqi government on June 28, 2004.

[Attack Machine] Biden's Iraq Scandal | Attack Machine: Back when Biden-advisor Galbraith was positioning himself to make millions with the Kurds, Biden was advocating the policies that would help Galbraith achieve just that.  For the Times to pretend otherwise is absurd.  The only argument I can imagine them making in support of their burial of the Biden connection is that as of November 12, 2009, Joe Biden no longer advocates the partition of Iraq.  So what?

[Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED)] Welcome | Project on Middle East Democracy: They report that Peter Galbraith ”stands to earn perhaps a hundred million or more dollars as a result of his closeness to the Kurds, his relations with a Norwegian oil company and constitutional provisions he helped the Kurds extract. Razzaq Al-Saiedi at the New York Times' At War blog highlights the importance of the upcoming election that will put “in place a political infrastructure that, in theory, will outlast the American presence in the country.

[SWJ Blog] 12 November SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): Metz concludes that the United States has a long-standing, continuing problem “developing sound assumptions when the opponent operates within a different psychological and cultural framework.” He sees a pattern of misjudgments about Saddam and Iraq based on Western cultural and historical bias and a pervasive faith in the superiority of America’s worldview and institutions.

[The Prog Blog] The Prog Blog » Blog Archive » Galbraith's Timing: This all gets sticky when it’s revealed that Galbraith helped Iraq write it’s Constitution. The very Constitution that spells out how the Kurds have almost complete control over oil found inside their territory leaving the central government in Baghdad high and dry.

[The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely] Iraq & Afghanistan Update/ Nov 12 | The Agonist: In early October, as President Obama huddled with top administration officials in the White House situation room to rethink America's failing strategy in Afghanistan, the Pentagon and top military brass were trying to make the president an offer he couldn't refuse. They wanted the president to escalate the war ”” go all in by committing 40,000 more troops and another trillion dollars to a Vietnam-like quagmire ”” or face a full-scale mutiny by his generals.

[The Common Ills] Iraq snapshot « The Common Ills: Jasim al-Azzawi: When Norway's most respected financial newspaper, Dagens Noeringsliv, covered the activities of a small, Norwegian oil company called DNO operating in northern Iraq, no one expected subsequent investigations to implicate the former US politician Peter Galbraith. Ambassador Galbraith is now suing DNO for a quarter of a billion dollars because the Kurdistan Regional Government has squeezed him out of his 5% stake in the company.

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