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...most of his life, Khadir has honed the occupation he learned as a child: fighting in the Kurdish militia against Saddam Hussein's forces. He has been jailed seven times since he was 14 and has seen a favorite uncle executed. Now, at 32, he is perfecting an entirely new skill, which could change this region as much as the wars in which he has fought have: drilling for oil. Since late November, he has toiled about 30 ft. aboveground on the first derrick erected in Kurdistan in decades, by a Norwegian outfit using a Chinese rig, of all things...
...injecting sizable revenues and foreign investment into an area about twice the size of New Jersey. Much of the work is still exploratory, but Western engineers and Kurdistan's Regional Government believe that huge riches could lie underneath. Exploration had been dormant for decades--the region first languished under Saddam's oppressive rule and then was isolated from Baghdad for 12 years after the 1991 Gulf War. "There's a race on to get fields into production," says a Western consultant in Kurdistan, too fearful for his safety to be named. "People are very, very optimistic...
...bare-knuckled foreign policy, building his own national- security staff, which drove Colin Powell's State Department berserk; Powell chief of staff Larry Wilkerson called Cheney's operation "a cabal" of "extreme nationalistic ... and messianic" members. Cheney pressed the case that there was a connection between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein long after others in the Administration had backed off. He said American troops would be greeted as liberators in Iraq and maintained that Saddam had amassed stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. When the Administration was charged with distorting prewar intelligence, Cheney went after the critics as "dishonest...
...Take that hammer and knock yourself on the head." SADDAM HUSSEIN, former President of Iraq, addressing Raouf Abdel-Rahman, the gavel-wielding chief judge in his trial. Hussein, who has made frequent court outbursts, also announced that he was on a hunger strike...
...These tantalizing riches risk falling into the same chasm, however, as the unpaid billions owed to Russia by Saddam Hussein's regime, and other Moscow-backed rogue regimes. Russia risks ending up unpaid, friendless - and facing a volatile nuclear neighbor, connected to terrorist groups and armed with Russian weapons, right on her unstable southern border. Some return to glory, indeed...