New Jersey-based Genie Energy is digging for oil in Syria, even though it clearly violates international law under the Geneva Convention (specifically, the Annex to the Fourth Geneva Convention). Its backers include ick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch, Lord Jacob Rothschild, ex-CIA director James Woolsey, ex-Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, ex-governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson and other ex-members of American government. So it’s safe to say, the oil company will move forward with digging, regardless of international law.