The Syrians closed it when the Iranians wanted Iraqi exports stopped, so I would think that Iraq is the only source. The tankers from Syria probably off-loaded in many places. Oil is fungible and you probably have Iraqi oil in your car now.
The Turkish pipeline was the one with pumping station problems. Maybe the truck tankers were the way to sneak out some oil without the UN knowing. I have no idea how they kept tally of Iraqi oil, but I would expect bureaucrats to love the simplicity of measuring oil flowing through a pipe, as against hot sticky work chasing tankers across the desert!
Harry --------------------------------------------------
Lawrence wrote:
Question: Could the oil coming out of the Syrian pipeline have come from anywhere other than Iraq? I don't have a pipeline map in my mind. Any info on where it was then being exported to? Iraqi oil was going by truck tanker into Turkey.
Lawry
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Harry Pollard > Sent: Fri, May 30, 2003 9:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Futurework] More American troops to Iraq > > > Lawry, > > Well said. > > Perhaps sanctions should never have been imposed by the United Nations. > Also, they shouldn't have taken such a big cut from the allowed exports. > > I called the Syrian pipeline "illegal" because they were > exporting outside > of UN inspection. (But, obviously with quotes.) Plenty too, for I recall > that the Syrian ports were very busy loading on to a continual line-up of > tankers. > > Harry > ------------------------------------------ > Lawrence wrote: > > >Hi, Harry, > > > >The 'sanctions' are a fancy word for blockade. Blockades are > illegal unless > >a state of war exists, and even then fall under a set of rules > that specify > >what is permissible and what is not. The US has not been at war > with Iraq, > >and thus a blockade itself is illegal. If there is any doubt > about this, the > >justifications for it given by the countries that sought to > impose sanctions > >specified that it was to create conditions within Iraq that > would lead the > >people to rise against Saddam Hussein. This is in itself an illegal > >strategy: a civilian population cannot be made to suffer by external > >countries for the sins of its leadership; they cannot be held > hostage under > >the many rules, including the Fourth Geneva Convention. > > > >You are right to put the word 'illegal' in parentheses when you > refer to the > >operation of Iraq's oil pipelines, for the blockade itself is of dubious > >legality. > > > >Yes, blowing it up was a silly thing to do, but a minor > silliness compared > >to the greater one.... > > > >Cheers, > >Lawry
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