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The American Imperial Plan and the Iraqi Oil Ministry |
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by Sarah Meyer The Centre for Research on Globalisation Entered into the database on Saturday, December 31st, 2005 @ 13:55:58 MST |
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The American Imperial Plan is proceeding nicely. Ahmad Chalabi is now
controlling the Oil Ministry, whilst not a member of the newly elected government: "Relations with Washington after falling out with the US administration,
was appointed acting oil minister after the incumbent Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum
was given leave, officials said on Friday. His takeover coincided with long lines forming at petrol stations in Baghdad,
as words spread that Iraq's largest oil refinery had shut down and a crippling
petrol shortage was inevitable. Chalabi, who supported Uloum for the post when a US-backed government was
formed earlier this year, is already the head of the Oil Council, a cabinet-level
board, and his influence on Iraq's economic and commodities policy is massive."
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/35CADFBB-7D78-4847-85E2-3E6AE80BDC67.htm Crude Designs An incisive study by Platform, entitled Crude Designs, focusses on the procedure
envisaged to transfer Iraqi oil to a handful of anglo-american oil giants: "Control of Iraq's future oil wealth is being handed to multinational
oil companies through long-term contracts that will cost Iraq hundreds of
billions of dollars. Crude Designs: The Rip-Off of Iraq's Oil Wealth reveals
that current Iraqi oil policy will allocate the development of at least 64%
of Iraq’s reserves to foreign oil companies. Iraq has the world’s
third largest oil reserves." (Crude Designs", http://www.carbonweb.org/crudedesigns.htm
by Greg Muttitt of PLATFORM. November 2005) This is an extremely important document which discusses the historical
background and future for oil in Iraq. The conclusion reached is that: "under the influence of the US and the UK, powerful politicians in the
Iraqi Oil Ministry are pushing to hand all of Iraq's underdeveloped fields
to multinational oil companies, to be developed under production sharing agreements."
The date for this plan is in 2006, following the elections. This fixed agreement would be a disaster for Iraq. They would lose revenue,
and would be denied "the ability to regulate or plan its oil industry...
foreign companies' operations (would be) immune from future legislation. It's
time to get this out of the secret elite drawer and into public discussion",
writes Greg Muttitt. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Further References http://indexresearch.blogspot.com/2005/11/siberian-shadowlands-part-2.html, See also: Investigating Imperialism: On The Road to Damascus, 2 December 2005
by William Bowles. |
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