Ka-Boom! Triple Bombing in Basra Kills 7, Wounds 24

November 2, 2011

Tags: Basra, Blood for, Oil
Posted in: Embassy/State, Iran, Iraq, Other Ideas

Iraqi officials say seven people were killed when three bombs hidden in motorcycles exploded in Basra. The bombs went off Wednesday evening near cafes where young people were sitting and drinking soft drinks. Some 24 people were wounded in the blasts.

Basra is southeast of Baghdad. The city is a hub of oil production, a major center of Iranian influence and site of one of America’s mega-consulates o’ freedom.

So how’s that oil production (“blood for oil”) doing, anyway, in between bombings?

Let’s check in with the always-sunny-in-Basra folks at the US Energy Information Administration: they says oil production is soaring over last year, with production jumping 13%, going from 2.3 to 2.6 million barrels a day. Yeah!

But here’s a spoil sport: Iraq’s oil exports in October ran at an average of 2.088 million barrels a day, or 0.6% below the rate of September said the head of the State Oil Marketing Organization, or SOMO. Those Iraqi numbers seem, well, lower, than the US numbers. That is a sad.

So which is it? Is Iraq a good witch or a bad witch this Halloween? No one knows, but things are certainly booming!

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