S---! - Iran just invaded Iraq - this is going to get ugly....

Interesting. Google News doesn't seem to make it front page at the moment. Perhaps it isn't considered a huge deal? :confused::confused::confused::confused:
 
revolutionary8 said:
Can we start a timeline? I am not sure what time it was in Iraq when Iran suppossedly invaded, as corresponding to the "breaking" news here in the US.
Anyone know?
What time was the invasion, why did it start where it did, when it did?

Who were the first "reporters' on the scene? why were they there? were they embedded?
etc, etc, etc,
its time to start f'in questioning "THE PRESS".

(breathing, breathing)
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About 9:30pm local time in Iran.

-t
 
"Clearly, what is not new is that Saudis (and Kuwaitis) are becoming an old hand at assisting Americans in their adventures in the region. In 1991, Nayirah, the 15-year old daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S., used her ties with the PR firm Hill & Knowlton and came up with the audacious lie that the Iraqis were throwing babies out of the incubators in Kuwait. Hill & Knowlton's marketing helped build domestic support for the war. $40billion of the $60 billion US costs was paid by Saudi Arabia." - Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

Uh, huh... we're getting warmer. Apparently, the decision has been made to let the American attack dog, Israel *, loose in the Middle East if the US won't participate directly for various reasons.

* Or more appropriately, Israel's attack dog, the United States. We'll see. ;)
 
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tangent4ronpaul said:
About 9:30pm local time in Iran.

-t
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these are snippets fromt the links that ForLiberty has been posting--

By Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent
Published: 4:50PM GMT 18 Dec 2009

Oil prices rose after reports emerged that a unit of Iranian military personnel had raised the Islamic Republic flag on East Maysan oilfield 4.

The Iranian troops were digging in last night almost 24 hours after the incursion was launched. "They positioned tanks around it and dug trenches," General Zafer Nazmi, the head of the Border Police in Basra said. "They are still there, they raised the flag."

...."Iran also announced it was ready to undertake an aggressive expansion of its uranium production programme in defiance of international efforts to prevent its acquisition of an atomic weapon.

It said it would install third and fourth generation centrifuges capable of processing uranium faster and more reliably. Iran has been testing the advanced machines at its plant in Natanz and said it was ready to move to establish a full-scale production unit by 2011.

The new models are said to operate at twice the speed of the existing plant operated by Iran and boast improved reliability, which would put the state much closer to the threshold of nuclear power.

Major powers have offered to supply nuclear fuel to Iran for the production of energy but Iran has continued to expand its own production facilities.
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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/6840337/Iran-invades-Iraqi-territory-to-seize-oil-field.html

Iraq, Iran play cat-and-mouse game over oil well


By Steven Edwards, Canwest News ServiceDecember 18, 2009 10:03 PM
UNITED NATIONS — Iraq on Friday demanded Iran immediately withdraw its forces from an Iraqi oil well, which it accused the Islamic republic of seizing after crossing the border with tanks.


Despite an Iranian agency report denying there had been any incursion, Iraq's deputy interior minister said that 11 Iranian soldiers had dug in at the well in the Fauqa Field after raising the Iranian flag there.


An Iraqi border general said the Iranians "positioned tanks . . . and dug trenches" around the field's Well No. 4, while other officials said the incursion was the latest of several like it this week.


Iraq is the third largest oil producer in the Middle East, while Iran is second only to Saudi Arabia.


"Iraq will not give up its oil wealth," Iraq's interior minister, Jawad al-Bulani, pledged in a televised statement.
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www.canada.com/news/Iraq+Iran+play+mouse+game+over+well/2360384/story.html

Dollar, Oil Gain After Iran - Iraq Oilfield Row

By REUTERS
Published: December 18, 2009

Filed at 5:28 p.m. ET


NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar gained broadly on Friday on improved economic sentiment and a safe-haven bid after Iranian soldiers crossed into Iraq and took up positions in a disputed southern oilfield, which also lifted oil prices.

The euro fell below $1.43 for the first time since early September, flushing out short dollar trades, while the dollar rose for a fourth consecutive day against the Japanese yen.

The dollar's advance led investors to pare risky bets earlier in the session, but U.S. stocks ended higher and trimmed the U.S. currency's gains.

Oil rose above $73 a barrel after Iran's incursion into an Iraqi oilfield sparked tension between two major crude exporters.

A cold snap in the U.S. Northeast, the biggest heating oil market in the world, also helped support prices.

Dollar strength forced investors who had bet on further weakness in the greenback to cover their short positions by selling equities or other assets.
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Confusing Tales About Iran-Iraq Oil Dispute Push Up Crude Prices

By Mark Memmott

Reports that some Iranian soldiers have entered Iraq and taken over an oil well that lies in a disputed piece of territory have pushed oil prices up slightly today.

Benchmark crude is selling for nearly $74 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, up a bit more than $1.

But exactly what's going on at the al-Fakkah oil field in southeast Iraq is very unclear:

Reuters says that:
A senior Iraqi official said Iranian soldiers crossed into Iraqi territory on Friday and took up position at a southern oilfield whose ownership is disputed by Iran, but Tehran denied the report.

The BBC reports that "an Iraqi official played down the incident, saying the area was abandoned and right on a disputed border section." And, "an Iranian oil company spokesman denied the accusation, saying no troops had taken control of any oil well."

To further confuse matters, Dow Jones Newswire says "an official from (Iraqi) state-run Missan Oil" said that "the incident happened two weeks ago."

Al-Jazeera adds that Ahmed Ali al-Khafaji, Iraq's deputy interior minster:
Said Baghdad had taken no military action against the Iranian troops and would seek a measured, diplomatic response to the situation.
"We are awaiting orders from our leader," he said.
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www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/12/iran_iraq_oil_field_prices.html

2nd UPDATE:Iranian Forces Occupy Iraq Oil Well -Iraqi Officials
(Adds Iraqi government confirmation)

Iranian forces have occupied a southern Iraqi oil well in a disputed section of the border after opening fire against Iraqi oil workers, an official from state-run Missan Oil Co. told Dow Jones Newswires.

"Two weeks ago around 10 to 11 Iranian troops occupied well 4 in al-Fukka oil field after Iraqi oil workers started work in the well near the border," the official who is familiar with the story said.

The official said Iranian troops opened fire against the workers who fled the worksite immediately. The fire caused no casualties, ...
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http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091218-713550.html
 
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What is it about the Christmas season? Last year it was Gaza.:confused:
I thought WW111 was scheduled for 2012.:confused:
 
ramallamamama said:
Sure takes our mind off health care, 'climate change', troop surges, unemployment, dollar devaluation, etc.
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we'll have to wait and see about that. These reports came out as early as Friday morning with no major word from the mainstream. They have reports, but they aren't shoving them down our throats.
 
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