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Wednesday 01 March 2000 London-UK Bas "the Chunky Monkey" Kirmani asked: > Dear all, > > Can someone explain the use of the term 'illegal refined >products' in reference to the production of the 140,000 barrels >a day at Basrah ? ( And which is still not much I understand in >oil terms.) The implication is that the sanctions are legal and >any defiance contrary. It seems Iraq is only allowed to sell raw, unrefined oil products. Refined oil products would be priced a bit higher than the give away in the leaks/losses in the bombed pipelines. Refined oil products would be sealed to avert leaks. Oil refineries all over Iraq were bombed. By and large the refineries, process plants and power stations remain damaged. There are no spare parts to repair them. Parveez Syed producer-director "Global Eye" Alert Communications [The author, Parveez Syed, is an investigative journalist and a mass media programming consultant. He has exposed many liars, subverters and deceivers. Moles and whistleblowers e-mail leaks and briefings to him. His copyrighted, unique features are often plagiarised or developed into probing factual tv documentaries. The features are archived on hundreds of websites worldwide]. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Parveez Syed's direct contact details are: One Stuart Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey CR7 8RA1 UK Telephone: London-UK 0044-(0)7831-196693 INTERNET emailto: parveez@cr78ra1uk.win-uk.net ----------------------------------------------------------------- ends; -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk Full archive and list instructions are available from the CASI website: http://welcome.to/casi