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It's 10 O'clock - Do You Know Where Your Troops Are? | 13 comments (13 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

SoJ (4.00 / 2)

I am a bit surprised that you would write a diary about Chad without mentioning once that the biggest foreign presence in that country is the French military, who have helped the country against various destabilisation attempts by Lybia (which turned nasty against France as well, with for instance the explosion of of a UTA plane over Niger which caused a number of deaths (everybody knows about Lockerbie in the English speaking world, but this is one is always forgotten, even though it is very similar. The head of the Lybian secret service was sentenced - in absentia - to life in prison in France)).

The Chad Cameroon pipeline is financed by the World Bank and it is probably the most monitored piece of oil asset around the world, and the use of the funds by the government is heavily monitored. Halliburton is a contractor, not a shareholder, which means that they work for Exxon, and you can be sure that Exxon will not let itself be scammed like the US government, so bringing the Halliburton bogeyman in here is a bit noxious.

Also I don't see the links with Mauritania, Algeria or Morocco.

People, please: it's not because there is oil in one place that everything done in that place is evil or suspicious, and that all oil related activities nearby are relatyed in a grand conspiracy. Maybe that's not yuour intent, but that's how it sounds like to me, based on partial information.

Remember:

oil is a complex business, especially when it involves several countries
our oil companies go in these countries to find oil because WE ASK them to, to feed off our cars or our needs for fertiliser or plastic toys. WE ARE RESPONSIBLE;
nominal amounts in the oil business are very impressive (billions of dollars). That does not make them suspicious, even if it obviously creates unexpected behaviors in small countries who see their economy put upside doswn by such riches.

In the long term, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris on Sun Apr 3rd, 2005 at 12:53:34 PM EST

you make a good point (4.00 / 2)

It is tempting and perhaps a natural tendency to assume guilt by association when it comes to oil companies, because of Bush. We would do well to stick to evidence.

--
When we hear freedom we know it doesn't mean armed occupation. --felagund

by froggywomp on Sun Apr 3rd, 2005 at 01:34:14 PM EST
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Re: SoJ (none / 0)

I wondered about the French influence as well, thses countries are all French sphere of influence. I can recall various small stories of French troop units being sent to the Sahel countries over the years.

by rolfyboy6 (rolfyboy@NOSPAMsonic.net) on Sun Apr 3rd, 2005 at 01:01:08 PM EST
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Re: SoJ (none / 1)

Thanks JP for your informtive follow-up.

I didn't mention France much, or the Libyan-Chad war(s), or Cameroon vs. Nigeria, or the growth of militant Islam in northern Nigeria, or western African destabilization esp. in Togo and C'Ivoire, or the new blocks for sale off of ST&P simply because then it'd turn into a book :)

My diary/article started with just an inquiry into the question - have American troops seen action in the nation of Chad? The answer is yes, and I figured most people didn't know that. I know I sure didn't know it.

Another side inquiry I didn't pursue much is that there are several countries who are in multiple violation of UN Sec Council resolutions yet seemingly go unpunished year after year, unlike Lebanon/Syria (1559) and of course the charade of Iraq in 2003. Morocco is a particular big offender, as is Israel and of course our controversial buddy Turkey.

Pax

Night and day you can find me Flogging the Simian

by soj on Sun Apr 3rd, 2005 at 07:49:57 PM EST
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