It is a huge blow for BP says Faulkner. "It will be a smaller company because of this,and it will have lost a great deal of capital that it needs now to invest in future oil exploration."

VOA: standard.2010.07.27

"Iraq's future is in the hands of its own people, and Iraq's leaders must now make some hard choices necessary to resolve key political questions, to advance opportunity and to provide security for their towns and their cities,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.30