Mr Hashemi is currently in Irbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, under the protection of the regional government.
Irbil has a glittering airport, European-styled traffic lights, well-paved roads and highly functional infrastructure.
The oil is being exported from the Taq Taq field in the province of Irbil.
Thursday's attacks occurred in the Sidakan area north of Irbil province from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
In fact, I talked to an inmate that was released last week from the jail in Irbil.
Last week, American forces raided an Iranian liaison office in the city of Irbil in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.
My wife and kids never left the house when we were in Irbil.
The region's progress is on full display in its capital city of Irbil, some 400km (249 miles) north of Baghdad.
In a sign of the times, Turkish and English are the languages of instruction at a top private school in Irbil.
In a visit to Irbil earlier this year Gandur gave his two Serbian bodyguards the slip to visit the ancient citadel there.
Last Wednesday, for example, the president of the Iraqi Kurdistan region hosted Kansas Senator Sam Brownback in the morning at his headquarters outside Irbil.
"We have turned Irbil from a run-down and shabby place into a little Dubai, " Mahmoud Othman, an MP for the Kurdish Alliance, said proudly.
Turkey has stopped linking improved ties with Irbil to resolving Turkey's conflict with the PKK, a fight which has claimed thousands of lives since 1984.
Should any attempt at insurrection misfire, they point out, it would be the people of Irbil, not the conference-goers in London, who pay the price.
Its capital, Irbil, once had the ambiance of a large village.
Mr. FOUAD HUSSEIN (Spokesman, Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government): Iran is not in Irbil, it's somewhere else, so they must not bring their fighting here to Kurdistan.
Mr. MOHAMMAD NAZIF KADRI: (Through translator) The liaison office in Irbil was supporting factions that threatened the security of Iraqi Kurdistan and the rest of Iraq.
This blazing fire and billowing black smoke came from a test drill at Taq Taq, an oilfield 30 miles southwest of Irbil in the Kurdish region.
Mr Hashemi is currently in Irbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, under the protection of the regional government, but Mr Maliki has demanded that they give him up.
"I believe Kurdistan is like a baby tiger, " said Zedbagi, sipping a latte in a Western-style espresso bar in the Family Mall, Irbil's largest shopping center.
They were moving people out of Kirkuk because it was too crowded and moving them to jails in Irbil and Suleimaniyah, where there was more room.
Associated Press writer Mohammed Jambaz in Irbil contributed.
Kerry also plans to speak by phone with Massoud Barzani, the head of the Kurdish Regional Government based in Irbil to encourage the Kurds not go ahead with unilateral actions - especially involving oil, like a pipeline deal with Turkey.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davotoglu recently called on Barzani in Irbil, and they "emphasized that any attempt to exploit the power vacuum by any violent group or organization (in Syria) will be considered as a common threat, " a not-so-veiled warning to the PYD.
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Despite the fanfare surrounding last week's arrival of 1, 000 American paratroopers at a muddy airstrip 30 miles north of Irbil, and the constant flow of men and materiel to the region, Kurdish officials admit that the northern front will be a considerably downsized affair.
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