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submitted by animaniac 43 months ago, from pubrecord.org
Ray Hunt, the Texas oil man who landed a controversial oil production deal with Iraq’s Kurdistan regional government, has enjoyed close political and business ties with Vice President Dick Cheney dating back a decade – and to the Bush family since the 1970s. More
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submitted by mikenumbers1 44 months ago, from congoo.com
Barack Obama says he would crackdown on oil speculators as part of his energy plan. He thinks oil speculation is largely to blame for $135-a-barrel crude. And Obama says a loophole inserted into a bill 8 years ago by a Republican who's now a John McCain adviser is behind it. More
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submitted by mikenumbers1 44 months ago, from congoo.com
Republican presidential candidate John McCain is proposing a $300 million government prize to whoever can develop an automobile battery that far surpasses existing technology. More
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submitted by allhands 45 months ago, from newsweek.com
Michael Sheehan is on a one-man mission to put terrorist threats into perspective which is a place they've rarely or ever been before. Already you can see it's going to be a hard slog. Fighting the inflated menace of Osama bin Laden has become big business, generating hundreds of billions of dollars More
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by James Risen , David Johnston from nytimes.com, 49 months ago
Legal gaps and immunity may prevent Blackwater guards involved in a shooting in Iraq from being tried. More
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by Lara Jakes Jordan, Matt Apuzzo from hosted.ap.org, 49 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Blackwater Worldwide repaired and repainted its trucks immediately after a deadly September shooting in Baghdad, making it difficult to determine whether enemy gunfire provoked the attack, according to people familiar with the government's investigation of the incident.... More
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by James Risen from nytimes.com, 49 months ago
A previously undisclosed incident has raised new questions about private security contractors in Iraq. More
