phantomlady wrote on Oct 21
st, 2010 at 10:24pm:
[quote author=philperth2010 link=1287552313/15#19 date=1287610089According to Abbott we are fighting in Afghanistan for the freedom of the Afghan people from the Taliban…..all I can say is we have nothing to be proud of and our actions do not match our rhetoric…..we are there for the oil and resources not to help the Afghan people achieve freedom…..how would the people living in that quite little Adelaide town feel if a foreign power started bombing their town and killing there children???
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), in John Dos Passos, "Mr Wilson's War"
There is no oil in Afghanistan. Lotsa poppies, but no oil. [/quote]
Really???
A preliminary survey found that Afghanistan may have 1.8 billion barrels of oil in the north of the country, an official said.
The survey by Afghan and international geologists found the possible oil field between Balkh and Jawzjan provinces, Mines Ministry spokesman Jawad Omar said.
He said the survey would be reviewed and a statement about the possible field is expected by the end of the year or early in 2011. He gave no further details.
Last June, Afghan officials said
US geologists believe the country has nearly one trillion US dollars in mineral resources, although it could take decades and peace with the Taliban and other insurgents before it can be fully exploited.
Oil was first discovered in Afghanistan in 1959 in the country's part of the Amu Darya and Afghan-Tajik basins of the north.
A 2006 report by the US Department of Energy estimated that Afghanistan has about one billion barrels of recoverable oil, although the US Geological Survey the same year put the figure at nearly two billion barrels. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/oil-field-discovered-in-afghanistan-2053829.html
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/MAD201A.html
August 15, 2010
Afghanistan's Mining Ministry announced today that a new oil deposit with an estimated 1.8 billion barrels of crude has been discovered in the north of the country.
Ministry spokesman Jawad Omar told the French news agency AFP that the new oil deposit extends in a triangle between Balkh, Hairatan, and Shuburghan.
Geologists are not expected to complete further assessments on the ground until January, and then the deposit will be opened to tender, Omar said.
It is the sixth oil deposit discovery made in Afghanistan.The largest were found in the Amu Darya river basin marking the border between Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan.
http://www.rferl.org/content/Afghanistan_Discovers_New_Oil_Deposit/2128315.html