Peter Galbraith: friend of the Kurds or the oil?

I never liked him or respected him. He suffers from being the son of a brilliant man with great charm: he has neither the brilliance nor the charm of his father. When he was acting heroic about the Afghan election fiasco, I ignored articles that put him in a good light. This is somebody who is wrong, even when he is right. (It reads better in Arabic). In other words, he always has other motives. And now this: it makes sense. He posed for years as a "friend" of the Kurds, but only because it fit with Zionist plans for the region. People forget that he is, and has been, a fanatic Zionist. "So it came as a shock to many last month when a group of Norwegian investigative journalists at the newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv began publishing documents linking Mr. Galbraith to a specific Norwegian oil company with major contracts in Iraq. Interviews by The New York Times with more than a dozen current and former government and business officials in Norway, France, Iraq, the United States and elsewhere, along with legal records and other documents, reveal in considerable detail that he received rights to an enormous stake in at least one of Kurdistan’s oil fields in the spring of 2004. As it turns out, Mr. Galbraith received the rights after he helped negotiate a potentially lucrative contract that allowed the Norwegian oil company DNO to drill for oil in the promising Dohuk region of Kurdistan, the interviews and documents show."