Babylon News Bites (rebuilding of Babylon)

[ihope]

After doing my research about Babylon I now understand the importance! It was just yesterday I too was searching for news bites. :) Thanks for your (diligent) posts!

[FaithContender]

Not really a "Babylon News Bite", but it does show how fast a city can grow and prosper.



Dubai 1991

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/3/14/1814874/Dubai1.jpg


Dubai 2005

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/3/14/1814874/Dubai2.jpg


Amazing...and frightening!:fear

[ATYCLB]

Deals with Iraq are set to bring oil giants back
6-19-08
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/19/africa/19iraq.php?page=1

Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power.

Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP — the original partners in the Iraq Petroleum Company — along with Chevron and a number of smaller oil companies, are in talks with Iraq's Oil Ministry for no-bid contracts to service Iraq's largest fields, according to ministry officials, oil company officials and an American diplomat.

The deals, expected to be announced on June 30, will lay the foundation for the first commercial work for the major companies in Iraq since the American invasion, and open a new and potentially lucrative country for their operations.

The no-bid contracts are unusual for the industry, and the offers prevailed over others by more than 40 companies, including companies in Russia, China and India. The contracts, which would run for one to two years and are relatively small by industry standards, would nonetheless give the companies an advantage in bidding on future contracts in a country that many experts consider to be the best hope for a large-scale increase in oil production.

More . . . (http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/19/africa/19iraq.php?page=1)

[ATYCLB]

Russia hopeful on talks regarding Iraq oil investment
10-8-07
http://www.iraqdevelopmentprogram.org/idp/news/new1732.htm

Iraq’s vast oil fields remain to be invested even as new ones are being discovered. Lately, oil has been discovered in the Kifl County of Hilla, Babylon, and before it in Diwaniyya and Samawa, with reports that Iraq may hold bigger reserves than Saudi Arabia.

[ATYCLB]

Expo of Greatest Babylon Treasures Opens in Berlin
6-26-08
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3440815,00.html

A touring exhibition of the greatest surviving treasures of ancient Babylon opens Thursday in the German capital Berlin at the Pergamon Museum, which already has one of the world's richest Babylonian collections.

Exhibition designers said the 1,000 items on display illustrated the vast cultural heritage of Iraq and would explore why western culture falsely associated Babylonian civilization with evil, with a Biblical tradition describing the city as the "Whore of Babylon."

The same cultural tradition has regarded the city as a failure, because it failed to complete its lofty Tower of Babel.

[heybales219]

Iraqi Airways Flying High as Country Continues to Rebuild


There was a time when Iraqi Airways criss-crossed the globe, operating flights from Baghdad to cosmopolitan destinations including Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Bombay and a host of other cities.



These days, things are starting to look better for the airline. A colossal $5.5 billion contract between Iraqi Airways and Boeing — among the largest the fledgling Iraqi government has funded to date — was recently signed to foster its expansion.



That jewel in Iraqi Airways' crown will buy 50 new and second-hand jets from Boeing and Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier, including 10 of Boeing's 787 Dreamliners.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,372961,00.html

[dramama]

Iraqi Airways Flying High as Country Continues to Rebuild



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,372961,00.html

Drat! You beat me to it!!

[heybales219]

Drat! You beat me to it!!
:heh :hug

[Katia_0203]

I think I just about fell out of my chair when I saw those photos of "Dubai 1991" and "Dubai 2005"...I mean WOW!

[6stringedsignseeker]

just goes to show you Babylon could be a full fledged bustling city within about three years. Maybe even less. err.... sorry thought it was 2005 to present in those pics.......