Bremer Sees More Iraq Attacks, Oilman Shot

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=3&u=/nm/20031110/ts_nm/iraq_dc

<snip>In the latest attack on the oil sector vital to Iraq's reconstruction, three gunmen opened fire on an oil company executive's car, wounding him in the leg and killing his son.

The attempt to kill Mohammed al-Zibari, an executive responsible for oil distribution in a state-owned company, took place on Monday in the northern city of Mosul, police said.

The incident was believed to be the first assassination attempt on an Iraqi oil firm manager. Attacks on the oil industry have largely focused on attempts to sabotage the main oil export pipeline to Turkey.

A top oil ministry official said officials had now abandoned plans to reopen the line until an Iraqi force can secure it.

"Technically the line could be operated right now but we decided to wait until we put together an Iraqi protective force to guard it," he said, without giving a timeframe.

[UpInArms]

1. a "well duh" moment

"We're going to have increased attacks and increased terrorism because the terrorists can see the reconstruction dynamic is moving in our direction," Bremer SAID.

"It will be more of a problem in the months ahead unless the intelligence gets better," he added, saying hundreds of fighters from Sudan, Syria, Yemen and Saudi Arabia had entered Iraq.

the better we do - the more they attack - upside down logic

[jonoboy]

4. so really it's "the more they attack the better it is" according to them

[Neutrino]

2. There doesn't seem to be anybody in the Bush regime

that grasps the complexities of the Middle East region. Bush likes
simple answers to very complex problems. Attack, kill, maim, plunder
= hearts, minds, OIL, VICTORY (huh?) Scary.

[JNelson6563]

3. they know we're there for the oil

They're out to make sure we don't get what we came for.

Julie