Update 20 October 2003
First Tacit American Admission of Defeat in Iraq
In the months following America’s illegal invasion of Iraq, it has become increasingly obvious that the northern pipeline from Mosul, planned to be reconnected to an export terminal in Haifa, is an impossible Zionist dream. Whenever American troops approach the northern half of this particular pipeline [see map at top of page], they are shot at and often killed by Saddam Hussein’s Sunni counter-insurgency teams. Whenever American troops approach the southern half of the same pipeline, they are shot at and often killed by Muqtada Al-Sadr’s Shiite counter-insurgency teams.
While these attacks are actually taking place, additional Sunni and Shiite counter-insurgency teams repeatedly blow up large sections of the main and branch oil pipelines, making the movement of crude oil and refined product impossible. Thousands of kilometers of oil pipeline are exposed above ground level, which, as I accurately forecast before the invasion started, cannot be defended by American troops.
All oil pipelines are pressurized, meaning that any Iraqi with a simple RPG [Rocket Propelled Grenade] can shut down any part of any pipeline whenever he wants, with a single shot. The last time I bothered to check, Iraq still had more than 600,000 RPG rounds available, meaning that American troops can go on getting killed and maimed for the next ten years, without any significant oil flow from Iraq to Israel, or from Iraq to America.
Two weeks ago, in what may be the first tacit admission of defeat in northern and central Iraq, America ordered its principal puppet in Baghdad, Ahmed Chalabi, to approach Saudi Arabia with a plan to pump Iraqi crude south-west through pipeline IPSA-1, for “onward transmission to the Red Sea.”
In fact, IPSA-1 was Israel’s original choice for Operation Shekhinah in March 2001, when the plan was for IPSC-2 and IPSC-1 to intersect the Trans Arabian Pipeline [Tapline], for the onward transmission of stolen Iraqi oil to the port of Haifa in Israel. Understandably perhaps, the “Red Sea” was not mentioned anywhere in the Shekhinah planning documents.
Though Chalabi’s approach came far too late in the day, it was without doubt the only plan that had even a remote chance of success, which is why the Israelis selected it months before their backers in Lower Manhattan were suddenly razed to the ground on 11 September 2001.
As a quick glance at the maps on this page show very well, IPSC-2 and IPSC-1 start in the huge southern Rumaila Field, then closely hug the Kuwaiti border before crossing the Neutral Zone into Saudi Arabia. When American forces are finally compelled to leave northern and central Iraq and retreat to the south, it is not difficult to see the logic of America’s latest desperate tactical plan.
Though 150,000 American troops have absolutely no chance of defeating and holding greater Iraq, there is no reason to believe they could not hold defensive positions in the relatively small portion of Iraq to the south of an east-west line drawn across the top of the Rumaila Field at Basra. Theoretically, this would then give America absolute control of the massive Rumaila Field, of the oil export terminals near Basra, and finally control of land pipelines running south-west, which are well out of reach of Iraqi Sunni & Shiite counter-insurgency teams.
Unfortunately for America, the Saudi Government knows only too well who pulls George Bush’s puppet strings, and it also knows about Operation Shekhinah. Al Jazeera reported on 20 October 2003 [link below] that Chalabi’s approach was smoothly rebuffed by the Saudis, with an anonymous Aramco official saying the Iraqis "don't know what they are talking about. The pipeline is not in a stage to be utilized."
The Saudis know as well as I do that there is nothing wrong with either IPSC-1 or IPSC-2, both of which remain full of oil [to exclude oxygen and avoid corrosion], and could be put back into operation in less than three months, as could the Tapline across to Jordan and then on to Israel. Unfortunately for Chalabi and his bunch of cutthroats in Baghdad, the Saudis kicked the Americans out of the Kingdom only last year, and very sensibly refuse to let them back in.
Shipping substantial quantities of crude oil out of Iraq via the Persian Gulf remains unthinkable, with significant dangers on the al Faw peninsula, and also from Iran just a few kilometers away. With the northern and western pipelines to Turkey and Israel now in tatters, IPSC-1 is the sole remaining route along which Israel and America can steal Iraqi crude oil, but they have left it too late.
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