In article <1113852810.001173.142440@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>, "PrinceGunter" <slippymississippi@yahoo.com> wrote:
A friend of mine got back from Sudan and said that the country is> > crawling with Texaco people. Aren't they still on "the list?" Isn't>
it illegal for Texaco to be working in a country on "the list?">
You guys are not a lot of help... I finally Googled the right string> and found that by executive order "American businesses are prohibited> from investing in or doing business with Sudan, and American economic> interaction with Sudan is severely limited to the exporting of licensed> agricultural commodities, the transfer of informational materials, and> the delivery of donated items, such as food, clothing, and medicine> that are intended to relieve human suffering...">
So what's the deal here? Why are the streets of Khartoum allegedly> teeming with American oilmen?
Looking for Weapons of Mass Destruction?
Why's your friend there?
-- Trev
"Every Democratic Senator is to the right of Kerry..including Kucinich." - C. Beauchamp
Trevor Zion Bauknight 19 April 2005 01:05:41 [ permanent link ]
In article <1113857152.592094.9590@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>, "PrinceGunter" <slippymississippi@yahoo.com> wrote:
So what's the deal here? Why are the streets of Khartoum allegedly>
teeming with American oilmen?> > Looking for Weapons of Mass Destruction?> > Why's your friend there?>
He was born and raised near Khartoum.>
Must be pretty rough over there if he prefers to live in Mississippi.
Hey, I did some quick reading. U.S. firms are forbidden to operate in Sudan since 1997 as long as the country's civil war continued...apparently, the Darfur conflict notwithstanding, that civil war ended in January. Apparently, Chevron-Texaco already has an oil contract...
-- Trev
"Every Democratic Senator is to the right of Kerry..including Kucinich." - C. Beauchamp
In article <1113837457.798031.127860@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, PrinceGunter says...>
A friend of mine got back from Sudan and said that the country is>crawling with Texaco people. Aren't they still on "the list?" Isn't>it illegal for Texaco to be working in a country on "the list?">
Maybe they're "just lookin' around" and kickin' a few rocks and stuff like that...you know, a little ecoterror^H^H^tourism and all...
