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Chalabi takes over Iraq oil ministry amid ’crisis’

by Open-Publishing - Friday 30 December 2005
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi has assumed direct control of the powerful oil ministry as crude exports ground to a halt due to sabotage attacks and logistics problems, officials said on Friday.

Chalabi, who has been improving his relations with Washington after falling out with the U.S. administration, was appointed acting oil minister after the incumbent Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum was given leave, the officials said.

Uloum told Reuters he was "intent on resigning". Aides to Chalabi confirmed that he had been appointed acting oil minister.

A ministry spokesman allied to Uloum said the country was facing what he called an impending oil supply crisis. "Production in the north, centre and south is about to suffocate," he said.

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  • For the blogger who uses the moniker, "Equalizer"... I hope you are reading the above blog entry and I hope you recall what I said, just a few weeks back in reply to your very lame "straw man" post...

    Recall what my reply to you at the time said, that a few key personnel be put in government positions to control the natural resource assets of Iraq by the U.S. (sic)

    Well here you are, while I did not post the above blog entry; I would think that you could use it as a factual piece of data to temper your inane "straw man" wanderings.