Kuwait 'Stealing Iraqi Oil'?

Kuwait 'Stealing Iraqi Oil'? Uday Awwad, a member of Iraq's powerful parliamentaryPetroleum and Energy Committee, says: "Kuwait has been stealingIraqi [crude] oil" through slant-drilling. A similar charge bySaddam's Sunni/Ba'thist dictatorship in May 1990 led toIraq's invasion of Kuwait The Invasion of Kuwait, also known as the Iraq-Kuwait War, was a major conflict between the Republic of Iraq and the State of Kuwait which resulted in the 7 month long Iraqi occupation of Kuwait[4] in August of that year and to a US-ledwar to liberate the GCC GCC:see Gulf Cooperation Council. (compiler, programming) GCC - The GNU Compiler Collection, which currently contains front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj, etc). emirate e��mir��ate?n.1. The office of an emir.2. The nation or territory ruled by an emir.Noun 1. emirate - the domain controlled by an emir in late February 1991. This committee, most of whose members are Iran-guided MPs, isinvestigating the issue. A sub-committee is dedicated to studying thesubject and verifying controversial reports to that effect. Kuwait hasrepeatedly denied the charge. Awwad's accusation follows recent controversy over Kuwaitiauthorities' alleged failure to inform Baghdad of its plan to buildthe Mubarak al-Kabir port on an island adjacent of Iraq's Gulfcoast, which Kuwaiti officials have flatly denied. The energycommittee's members have visited the Kuwait-Iraq border to confirmif slant-drilling is being practiced before reporting its findings tothe parliament. Iraq owes Kuwait over $24bn in war 1990/91 reparationsand old debts. Kuwait's General Assembly has rejected repeatedIraqi requests to cancel or at least reduce these dues.