Message 26/29
Date: 27-Sep-02 @ 12:27 AM -
RE: So, you THINK Saddam doesn't have..
Milan: Nearest oil is in Asia? Nuhuh.. look up 'Caspian Oil Reserves'
I was talking about the Trans-Balkan oil pipeline that will transport Caspian oil through Macedonia and Albania. The pipeline is slated to carry 750,000 barrels a day, worth about $600 million a month at current prices. Old Slobodan Milosevic was trying to get the pipeline to go through serbia so he could rake in the profit rathe than the usual US consortia.
After the NATO bombing campaign, the U.S. spent $36.6 million to build Camp Bondsteel in southern Kosovo. The largest American foreign military base constructed since Vietnam, Bondsteel was built by the Brown & Root Division of Halliburton, the world's biggest oil services corporation, which was run by Richard Cheney before he was tapped for Vice-President.
Bet they didn't tell you that on CNN huh?