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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on February 02, 2010, 08:26:12 AM
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Don't know if anyone posted this yet. Saw this on Yahoo! News, and it's from last Sunday.
Afghan 'geological reserves worth a trillion dollars'
Sun Jan 31, 7:48 am ET
KABUL (AFP) – Afghanistan, one of the world's poorest countries, is sitting on mineral and petroleum reserves worth an estimated one trillion dollars, President Hamid Karzai said Sunday.
The war-ravaged nation could become one of the richest in the world if helped to tap its geological deposits, Karzai told reporters.
"I have very good news for Afghans," Karzai said.
"The initial figures we have obtained show that our mineral deposits are worth a thousand billion dollars -- not a thousand million dollars but a thousand billion," he said.
He based his assertion, he said, on a survey being carried out by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), due to be completed in "a couple of months".
Hmmm . . . Repayment of loans, anyone? Maybe help the US economy get out of its' financial hole?
The rest is at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100131/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistaneconomyenergyminerals_20100131124906
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I'm sure there's a lot of untapped mineral wealth, petrochemicals probably not so much, but extraction of anything but gold, uranium, or diamonds would be tough to make pay given the remoteness and shaky politics.
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Get the oil companies in there, they'll fix the place up.... :evillaugh:
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Now we know why Bush staged 9/11.[/DU]
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Now we know why Bush staged 9/11.[/DU]
I saw a pick up truck with a sticker on the rear window: "9-11 was an inside job". On the bumper was a sticker for infowars. :mental: