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Barrett808 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 03:12 PM
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9. Aren't the Poles also being paid in oil?
I have the link somewhere.

Ah, here it is:

Endziel Ölfelder
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,255683,00.html

Polens Außenminister scheint ein Freund offener Worte zu sein. Er enthüllte die wahren Interessen, die hinter dem polnischen Engagement im Irak stehen. Der Zugang zu den irakischen Erdölfeldern sei das "Endziel".

Warschau - "Wir verbergen nicht, dass wir wollen, dass polnische petrochemische Unternehmen endlich unmittelbaren Zugang zu Rohstoffen haben", sagte Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz nach Informationen der Nachrichtenagentur PAP. Der Außenminister sprach nach der Unterzeichnung eines Kooperationsvertrages zwischen dem Konzern Kellog, Brown & Root und der polnischen Erdölfirma Nafta Polska SA als Vertreter eines Konsortiums polnischer Firmen. In dem Vertrag geht es um die Zusammenarbeit beim Wiederaufbau des Irak.

Polen gehörte während des Irak-Krieges mit knapp 200 Soldaten zur "Koalition der Willigen", die unter Führung der USA an dem Krieg gegen das erdölreiche Land teilnahm. Der Einsatz, von dem Polen nach Willen polnischer Unternehmen wirtschaftlich profitieren soll, hat das Land als enger Bündnispartner der USA bereits politisch gestärkt.

Polen soll in einer eigenen Verwaltungszone im Irak die Lage stabilisieren und den Wiederaufbau organisieren. Am Mittwoch waren die ersten 250 polnischen Soldaten in die Golfregion aufgebrochen. Insgesamt sollen 2300 polnische Soldaten in der mehr als 9000 Mann umfassenden multinationalen Truppe in der polnischen Besatzungszone eingesetzt werden.


Babelfish translation:

Final goal of oil fields

Of Poland ministers of foreign affairs a friend of open words seems to be. It revealed the true interests, which stand behind the Polish commitment in the Iraq. The entrance to the Iraqi oil fields is the "final goal".

Warsaw - "we do not hide that we want that Polish petrochemical enterprises have finally direct entrance to raw materials", said Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz after information of the press agency PAP. The minister of foreign affairs spoke after the signing of a co-operation contract between the company Kellog, Brown & root and the Polish oil company Nafta Polska SA as a representative of a consortium of Polish companies. In the contract is around co-operation in the reconstruction Iraq.

Poland belonged to that during the Iraq war with scarcely 200 soldiers to the "coalition consenting", which participated under guidance of the USA in the war against the oil-rich country. The employment, from which Poland is to profit after will of Polish enterprises economically, strengthened the country as close allies of the USA already politically.

Poland is to stabilize the situation in its own administrative zone in the Iraq and organize the reconstruction. On Wednesday the first 250 Polish soldiers were broken open into the Gulf region. Altogether 2300 Polish soldiers are to be inserted into the more than 9000 men comprehensive multinational troop in the Polish zone of occupation.
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