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Title: The 'oils' of war
Post by: Dexter on November 22, 2005, 06:05:28 am
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article328526.ece

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4354269.stm

Yesterday's report said the use of production sharing agreements (PSAs) was proposed by the US State Department before the invasion and adopted by the Coalition Provisional Authority. "The current government is fast-tracking the process. It is already negotiating contracts with oil companies in parallel with the constitutional process, elections and passage of a Petroleum Law," the report, Crude Designs, said. Earlier this year a BBC Newsnight report claimed to have uncovered documents showing the Bush administration made plans to secure Iraqi oil even before the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US.

They hate you for your "greedom"