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Fonte:Yahoo News

Texan says God sent him to seek oil in Israel

Patrick Moser – Mon Aug 3, 2009

MAANIT, Israel (AFP) – Texan John Brown says he is on a divine mission to find oil in the land of milk and honey.

Brown, who calls himself Zionist Christian, is convinced that oil-dependent Israel is sitting on vast reserves of crude. Their location is mapped out in the Bible, he says.

Standing on the platform of a 45-metre- (150-foot-) high rig in central Israel, Brown says he expects the black gold to start flowing within months. "There's no maybe -- it's going to happen," the 69-year-old says.

He is not the only one who has faith that there is oil under the Holy Land. Brown points out that his Zion Oil and Gas company, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, recently raised 21 million dollars.

But his claim that the Bible shows where the treasure is buried has raised more than a few eyebrows.

He is prospecting in a country where former premier Golda Meir once joked that Moses took the Jews through the desert for 40 years only to end up in "the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil".

"I think she was wrong," says Brown, holding the well-worn Bible he always carries with him, and which he says is clear in mentioning "the blessing of the deep that lies beneath".