heard of the island St. Eustatius? busy, oily place

donsu

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Thu May-13-04 12:15 PM
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heard of the island St. Eustatius? busy, oily place

http://www.buzzflash.com/mailbag/04/05/mai04133.html

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A tidbit (scroll to bottom) from the link to "What are they smoking at the Labor Dept" By JOHN CRUDELE:

http://www.nypost.com/business/23936.htm

"Here's some more bad news about Iraq.

A source in the intelligence community tells me that the U.N. oil embargo of Saddam Hussein was worthless because Iraqi oil was being shipped all these years to a Caribbean island called St. Eustatius, unloaded into onshore tanks and then reloaded into U.S.-bound tanker ships.

The same switcheroo is being done with Iranian oil, I'm told.

Oh, and the source says Washington would rather nobody know about this."

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muriel_volestrangler

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Thu May-13-04 01:06 PM
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1. It even has a history of sanctions busting

The citizens of Sint Eustatius take pride in being the first "nation" to recognize the United States, having fired an official salute the visiting American ship Andrew Doria in 1776. At the time, the island was of some importance for sugar, enhanced even further as an entrepot for goods headed to the blockaded American colonies

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Sint%20Eustatius

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greatauntoftriplets

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Thu May-13-04 01:26 PM
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2. I've been to Statia.

Though not since the late 1980s. Very interesting....

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