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August 15, 2010

Afghanistan Finds 1.8 Billion-Barrel Oilfield

Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Afghanistan discovered an oilfield containing an estimated 1.8 billion barrels of crude in the north of the country, a Mines Ministry official said.

If proven, the resource would be more than ten times the size of the country’s oil reserves, assessed at more than 150 million barrels by the U.S. Geological Survey.

The U.S., which has spent $27 billion since 2002 training Afghan forces, is promoting development of Afghan resources in an attempt to stabilize President Hamid Karzai’s government, U.S. Deputy Under-Secretary of State Paul Brinkley said earlier this year. During an Aug. 13 video teleconference, U.S. President Barack Obama and Karzai discussed the need to jointly keep the pressure on the Taliban and to build Afghan capacity.

Afghanistan plans tenders for more than five mineral and energy projects by the end of 2011, including gold, copper, iron ore, gemstones, marble, lithium, oil and gas, Mines Minister Wahidullah Shahrani said in June. The nation’s mineral wealth may total $1 trillion to $3 trillion, he said. U.S. officials estimate there are untapped minerals worth about $1 trillion in the country, the New York Times reported on June 14.

read: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-08-15/afghanistan-finds-1-8-billion-barrel-oilfield.html

[nightrain]

1. knr. Aaahh... the purpose of our participation in the invasion and occupation

of that country too becomes clearer... just like Iraq. Empires suck.

[HillbillyBob]

2. In 1998 I predicted , based on reading PNAC manifesto

that If (*) ran he would 'win' in a cheated election.
I also predicted to many people that we would be at war with Iran and or Iraq for control of their oil, and that another BFEE maladministration would end up causing another depression.
Yet some of those same idiots voted for the fuckup.
I predicted that based on what info I could read at that time. Now it is all chaos and my only prediction is civil war or at the least unrest. I think its time we bring that unrest and call for arrest of the entire previous administration.
No one or few in congress give a fuck about us any more, they only care that we keep sending money for our government to keep sending missions of murder to other countries so they can rape them of their natural resources.

[nightrain]

3. yes. being an citizen in an Empire demands some consciousness...