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...their experience in deep water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. West African oil is low in sulphur, which makes it easy to refine. Because most of it lies offshore, foreign oil companies don't have to deal with locals beyond a few government officials and hired labor. Transport is easy too: the oil fields sit a direct tanker trip across the Atlantic from Europe or America's east coast, with no pesky Suez Canal or Gulf to navigate. The Bali blast is a reminder that no place is safe from terror, and recent fighting in Ivory Coast...
...dollar costs, meanwhile, will be pretty steep. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) last week estimated it would cost $9 billion to $13 billion to deploy forces, $6billion to $9 billion a month to prosecute the war and then $5 billion to $7 billion to transport GIs back home. Add a peacekeeping mission that the CBO estimates would cost $1 billion to $4 billion a month, and the total for three months of combat plus five years of occupation would be $272 billion...
Afghan officials in Kunduz interviewed by Time say the U.S. committed another major blunder in late November, when American commanders, according to these sources, agreed to allow Pakistan to airlift a "limited number" of Pakistani intelligence agents out of Afghanistan. Witnesses say that when the transport planes and helicopters arrived in Kunduz, hundreds of Taliban and foreign al-Qaeda fighters jostled for space on the flights. Locals believe that as many as 1,000 boarded the flights to Pakistan; according to Kunduz's deputy governor, Saeed Abra, the passengers included several al-Qaeda leaders and the staff and families...
...BODY DONATION Cost: Free, but some transport fees may apply...
...Sincerity alone won't be enough to get the new zone off the ground. Sinuiju is short of everything an economic hub needs to operate, including decent roads, commercial transport and proper water facilities. Yang intends to woo international banks to finance infrastructure projects. Similar funding has been sought in the past without much success. In the mid-1990s, Pyongyang tried to lure capital to North Korea's Rajin-Sonbong free trade zone, which also has its own legal code, but little has been developed. In a black box of a state where assessing political risk is like reading chicken...