Deputy PM Optimistic About Iraq Progress (more like delusional)

[Barrett808]

Deputy PM Optimistic About Iraq Progress
Tuesday August 29, 2006 5:31 PM
By BARRY SCHWEID
AP Diplomatic Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - While acknowledging an uptick in violence in the past few days, one of Iraq's deputy prime ministers said Tuesday that attacks overall are declining.

Barham Salih also predicted that by the end of the year, half of the country's provinces will be controlled by Iraq's security forces.

Salih said violence had dropped by half during the past month, but that terrorists and remnants of the deposed government of Saddam Hussein remain a challenge to the government.

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The deputy prime minister said Iraq is projecting 1.7 billion to 1.8 billion barrels a day for export, and production of 2.2 billion to 2.5 billion barrels overall.

Production is expected to double to 4.3 billion barrels by 2010, he said.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6045683,00.html

[marmar]

1. Barham Salih has been hanging out with Baghdad Bob too much...

:beer: :smoke: