Ok, this is a big deal because it's all about oil, isn't it? The Kurds apparently signed an oil deal with Norway last year. They just held a ceremony and began drilling...which was the first time the federal government had any clue what was going on.
"We need to figure out if this is allowed in the constitution," said an advisor to Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari.Talk about destabilizing. If the Kurds get away with making deals to sell oil on their own, they're halfway to an independent Kurdistan, which is what they want anyway. And then goodbye Iraq.
