US Oil Companies Offered Five Million Dollar Bribes To Iraqi MP's?
Reported today on Akhbar Alkhaleej newspaper
An Iraqi MP preferred to remain anonymous told the newspaper that highly confidential negotiations took place by representatives from American oil companies, offering $5 million to each MP who votes in favor of the Oil and Gas law.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19246.htm
Bush Won't Ban Permanent Bases Pushes For Iraqi Oil Law
By Aaron Glantz
"We've got the Bush administration pushing aggressively for an (Iraqi) law that would give oil companies 20- to 25-year contracts for oil in Iraq and if they were to be at work for an extended length of time, they would need security," she said.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19247.htm
Iraq failure equals success for neocons
The Americans have an excuse to have permanent bases as long as the insurgency lasts; a largely state-run economy has been opened to foreign capital; America has control of large oil reserves; the Middle East has a wedge of US military to control and threaten any uppity Islamic state that dares threaten its interests...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,2249454,00.html
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=permanent+bases
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Aaron+Glantz
An Iraqi MP preferred to remain anonymous told the newspaper that highly confidential negotiations took place by representatives from American oil companies, offering $5 million to each MP who votes in favor of the Oil and Gas law.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19246.htm
Bush Won't Ban Permanent Bases Pushes For Iraqi Oil Law
By Aaron Glantz
"We've got the Bush administration pushing aggressively for an (Iraqi) law that would give oil companies 20- to 25-year contracts for oil in Iraq and if they were to be at work for an extended length of time, they would need security," she said.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19247.htm
Iraq failure equals success for neocons
The Americans have an excuse to have permanent bases as long as the insurgency lasts; a largely state-run economy has been opened to foreign capital; America has control of large oil reserves; the Middle East has a wedge of US military to control and threaten any uppity Islamic state that dares threaten its interests...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,2249454,00.html
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=permanent+bases
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Aaron+Glantz
rudkla - 1. Feb, 11:22
