- Bush Administration Opposes Senate Ban On Iraq Oil (April 20, 2002)
...orge W. Bush's administration opposes a Senate plan to ban U.S. imports of Iraqi oil out of concern it could undermine a U.N. program to meet Iraq's humanitari... - Cheney-Tied Halliburton Awarded Iraqi Oil Repair Jobs (March 26, 2003)
...reconstruction. The Army Corps of Engineers didn't solicit bids for the Iraqi oil contract announced Monday. Rather, it said it awarded the work to Kellogg... - Garner Begins to Shape Iraq's Interim Administration (April 24, 2003)
...US demand that sanctions be lifted completely, thus enabling free trade of Iraqi oil. The UN Thursday extended by three weeks to June 3 arrangements that pl... - Iraq’s 'Sovereign' Government to Have Little Control Over Oil Money (June 22, 2004)
...rogram Review Board (PRB) has quietly committed billions of dollars in Iraq's oil revenues to new contracts that critics say will enrich US and British corp... - A Weapons Cache We'll Never See (August 25, 2003)
...een a top priority for the coalition forces — at least as important as the Iraqi Oil Ministry or the National Museum. And it seems highly unlikely that coaliti... - NION: Sarandon, Robbins Join War Protest in NYC (October 7, 2002)
...ry about the need for an attack on Iraq and the war against terrorism. Iraq's oil reserves are the second biggest in the world after Saudi Arabia's. The... - War Estimate Approaching $100b, for Starters (March 14, 2003)
...e, the picture that emerges is one of huge costs, especially in rebuilding Iraq's oil fields, providing civilian infrastructure such as water, sanitation and el... - US Met with Kurdish Factions On Overthrow of Hussein (April 23, 2002)
...ision address less than a month after he announced that he was cutting off Iraq's oil exports for 30 days or until Israel withdraws from Palestinian territories... - George Bush's New Imperialism (August 4, 2002)
...ted end of the Iraq-Iran war, Iraq invaded Kuwait, which had been stealing Iraqi oil by slant drilling and undermining Iraq's battered economy. Extremely ambig... - US Soldier Jailed For Shooting Dead Wounded Iraqi Civilian (December 11, 2004)
...l other parties, including communists, Christians and Kurds. Meanwhile, Iraqi oil minister Thamer Abbas Ghadbane warned that rebels hoping to disrupt the el... - How Many Americans Will Die for Oil? (August 4, 2003)
...y above domestic and international law for anything related to commerce in Iraqi oil." The immunity is unconstrained. The opening sentence decrees that "any... - A War Crime or an Act of War? (January 31, 2003)
...t probably could not be challenged for decades — not solely by controlling Iraq's oil, but by controlling its water. Even if America didn't occupy the country,... - DoD Task Force Said Iraqi Oil Would Not Fund War (October 5, 2003)
...the planning for the war, produced a book-length report that described the Iraqi oil industry as so badly damaged by a decade of trade embargoes that its produ... - US to Let Iraq Manage Own Oil (August 18, 2003)
...reign supervision signals their increasing confidence in the competence of Iraqi oil professionals and heightened concern about Iraqi political sensitivities,... - U.S. accused of depleting Iraq fund (July 3, 2004)
...were approved without competitive bidding. The fund, made up largely of Iraqi oil revenue, is intended to pay for the rebuilding of Iraq. Critics have charg... - Former Ba'th Party Official's Views of Iraq's Future (October 2, 2003)
...y and, primarily, American technology. Consider that America's need is for Iraq's oil and Iraq's need, conversely, is for American technology. This is a goal th... - In Iraqi War Scenario, Oil Is Key Issue (September 15, 2002)
... have either reached or sought to reach agreements in principle to develop Iraqi oil fields, refurbish existing facilities or explore undeveloped tracts. Most... - U.S. Funds for Iraq Are Largely Unspent (July 4, 2004)
...und for Iraq, which was established by the U.N. Security Council to manage Iraq's oil revenue, said Joseph A. Christoff, director of international affairs and t... - Iraq opens border point with Saudis (November 1, 2002)
... authorised entry point for humanitarian goods bought with the proceeds of Iraqi oil sales under the UN deal. The four other crossings are at the Iraqi towns o... - Controlling Iraq's Oil Wouldn't Be Simple (November 3, 2002)
...conomic gamble of enormous proportions," given the deplorable state of the Iraqi oil industry, the enormous costs of rebuilding the country, and the uncertaint... - Revision Thing (September 1, 2003)
... not interested in the oil in that region. We were intent on ensuring that Iraq's oil resources remained under national Iraqi control, with the proceeds made av... - Riots Continue Over Fuel Crisis in Iraq's South (August 11, 2003)
... imported gasoline and liquefied petroleum gas to the marketing arm of the Iraqi Oil Ministry. Currently, gasoline production is about eight million liters a d... - US Control of Baghdad and Its Crude May Signal New Assault on OPEC (June 7, 2003)
...een as part of a wider battle for political leadership in the Gulf. Former Iraqi Oil Minister Fadhil Chalabi, a cousin of Ahmed Chalabi, the Pentagon-backed le... - Bush Aides Admit Serious Mistakes on Iraq (September 9, 2003)
...l, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told Congress that revenue from Iraqi oil would be $50 billion to $100 billion over a two- to three-year period and... - Army Admits Killing Cameraman (August 18, 2003)
...few miles apart raged out of control along the 600-mile pipeline exporting Iraq's oil to Turkey. The first fire began Friday, only two days after oil export... - US Rebuffs UN Peace Appeals (March 19, 2003)
...roposal to redefine an 8-year-old oil-for-food program to allow the use of Iraqi oil proceeds to fund humanitarian aid programs after the war. There are tens o... - Violence in Iraq Continues to Spread (August 11, 2003)
...would bring crude oil production back up to prewar levels by 2004. "The Iraq oil ministry staff are working night and day to restart oil production," said... - Florida Man Says US Piping Iraqi Oil Through Kuwait (June 3, 2003)
...all sorts of support. If I had to bet, I'd say it looks like we're running Iraqi oil through Kuwait. It would make sense, because Kuwait's got its infrastructu... - Report: US Has a Plan to Occupy Iraq (October 11, 2002)
...while the United States and its allies searched for weapons and maintained Iraq's oil fields. For as long as the coalition partners administered Iraq, they... - Ditch the Distraction in Chief (August 16, 2004)
...osed the invasion of Iraq because it threatened their own plans to control Iraq's oil. With Kerry in power, European leaders will no longer be able to hide thei... - A Commitment and a True Coalition to Rebuild Iraq (September 1, 2003)
...ty in Iraq is $2 billion. Estimates of the cost of repairing and improving Iraqi oil facilities are between $5 billion and $10 billion. Estimates of the costs... - High Payments to Halliburton for Fuel in Iraq (December 10, 2003)
...s estimated that Halliburton was charging the United States government and Iraq's oil-for-food program an average of about $1.60 a gallon for fuel available for... - Huge Trade Deal Draws Russia to Iraq (August 17, 2002)
...ries". He added: ''We have given full priority to Russian companies in Iraqi oil trading on the world market.'' Soviet or Russian specialists built muc... - Let Iraqis Rebuild Their Own Country (August 1, 2003)
...given a free hand. There is no need for foreign companies to take control. Iraqi oil revenue should go to Iraqis, who should then be left in peace to set their... - Attacks in Iraq May Signal New Tactics (August 18, 2003)
...re saboteurs on Friday blew up another part of the pipeline, which carries Iraqi oil into Turkey. The mortar attack occurred shortly before midnight Saturda... - Half-Trillion Dollar Deficit Still Not Enough to Fund Iraq (September 8, 2003)
... projections of reconstruction costs proved too low and their estimates of Iraqi oil export revenue were too high. Iraq is struggling to restore an oil ind... - Pentagon Charges Halliburton with Profiteering (December 12, 2003)
...es a contract with the Army Corps of Engineers for repairing and restoring Iraq's oil industry. The initial value of the work was set at $7 billion. A second co... - Heady Days for Contractors in Race for Iraq Deals (November 20, 2003)
... once run by Vice President Dick Cheney, has the prime contract to rebuild Iraq's oil fields, while San Francisco-based Bechtel has the main infrastructure cont... - Full Steam Ahead (September 1, 2002)
...d by the administration, the withdrawal of American oil companies from the Iraqi oil market, the expansion of Al-Adeed air base in Qatar -- could indicate that... - Annan Predicts 'Imminent Disaster' (March 19, 2003)
...s is talking with Security Council members about making adjustments to the Iraqi oil-for-food program, which feeds more than 60 percent of the Iraqi population... - 40 Years of Iraqi History and News Coverage Considered (October 23, 2002)
...o establish some degree of institutional stability and to make good use of Iraq's oil revenues. Moreover, the country was showing signs that it might emerge as... - New View: Long, Protracted War (March 30, 2003)
...of California to one closer to the size of Connecticut. In the process, Iraq's oil fields were not destroyed, and no missiles laden with chemical or biologic... - Syria Forms New Alliances (June 26, 2002)
... believed to be illegally importing an extra 150,000 to 200,000 barrels of Iraqi oil per day. Syria has also patched up relations with Jordan, its southern... - The Untidiness of Freedom (April 23, 2003)
... oil pipeline running from Iraq to Syria. Washington insisted that pumping Iraqi oil outside United Nations supervision provided the former Iraqi regime with i... - Cool War (November 1, 2002)
...they do not know until after they agree to it. As a result of this system, Iraq's oil income has dropped 40 percent since last year, and more than $2 billion in... - How to Get Out of Iraq (April 15, 2004)
...not open the way to new repression. (Until now, most Iraqi Kurds have seen Iraq's oil wealth as a curse that gave Saddam the financial resources to destroy Kurd... - Anti-War Movement Explodes (January 13, 2003)
...ational security. Finally, some people may realize that it is control over Iraq's oil fields that our national leaders covet, not the prospect of installing dem... - The West's Battle for Oil (October 6, 2002)
...raq to export some oil. Indeed, the US imports almost a million barrels of Iraqi oil a day, even though American firms are forbidden from direct involvement wi... - Senate Asks Bush to Employ NATO, UN in Iraq (July 10, 2003)
...ly will cost tens of billions of dollars over several years, and projected Iraqi oil revenues will not meet those costs. One author of the measure, Sen. Jos... - How America Created a Terrorist Haven (August 20, 2003)
...her countries, to make clear that the war wasn't an American plot to steal Iraq's oil and denigrate Islam, as the extremists argue. The goal of creating a be... - Spoils to the Victor (April 18, 2003)
...ly run by Vice President Cheney — and, gosh, who would have predicted that Iraq's oil fields might need to be repaired after a war? — is only worth $600 million... - Halliburton's Iraq Awards Worth $1.7b (August 28, 2003)
...arded a no-bid contract, with a $7 billion limit, for putting out fires at Iraqi oil wells. Corps spokesmen justified the lack of competition on the grounds th... - Iraq Tried to Avert War with US, Was Rebuffed (November 6, 2003)
...e report said that "the U.S. will be given first priority as it relates to Iraq oil, mining rights," and that Iraq would cooperate with United States strategi... - Civil War In Iraq, Made In the USA (August 4, 2005)
...he failure of reconstruction, the firing of the army, the blatant theft of Iraqi oil money, the use of the Badr Brigade, the use of Peshmerga, the use of death... - Blueprint for a Mess (November 2, 2003)
...ng. Or rather, they did only one thing — station troops to protect the Iraqi Oil Ministry. This decision to protect only the Oil Ministry — not the Nationa... - Shams, Scams and Kofi Annan (March 27, 2004)
...ve to go back to 1996, when the international body set up a system whereby Iraqi oil could reach the market only if the proceeds went to the "humanitarian reli... - Reserve Call-Up for an Iraqi War May Equal 1991's (October 28, 2002)
...obstacles up in front of allied forces moving toward Baghdad, from setting Iraqi oil fields aflame, as he ordered done in Kuwait a decade ago, to flooding the... - The Economic Impact of War (December 10, 2002)
...economy fares better than under a “no war” scenario. The temporary loss of Iraqi oil is no big deal. Iraq’s production now represents about 2 percent to 2.5 pe... - Why Are We Back in Vietnam? (October 26, 2003)
...American contribution to rebuilding Iraq would be only $1.7 billion; that Iraqi oil income would pay for most of the reconstruction; and that the entire war w... - The Fifty-First State (September 18, 2002)
...rst, the threat of sabotage, which would become greater to the extent that Iraq's oil industry was seen in the Arab world more as a convenience for Western cons... - War Tactics – Again (November 22, 2003)
...ay, a day before more than 10 rockets fired from donkey carts slammed into Iraqi Oil Ministry headquarters and two large hotels, Dempsey boasted that Iron Hamm... - Many Balk at Preparations for War Against Iraq (August 8, 2002)
...o an unprecedented crisis. Therefore, President Bush's Iraq war to control Iraqi oil, not for the preservation of history and civilization, will only pave the... - War Planners Speak of the Risks (February 18, 2003)
...to administration officials' postwar planning because they are counting on Iraqi oil revenues to help pay for rebuilding the nation. Although administration... - Why the Anti-War Movement Was Right (April 16, 2003)
...in no way proves that running roughshod over international law and pouring Iraqi oil — now brought to you by the good folks at Halliburton — onto the flames of... - US Facing Bigger Bill For Iraq War (December 1, 2002)
...ast, terrorist attacks against the United States and large-scale damage to Iraqi oil facilities. An intermediate scenario (30 percent to 40 percent probabil... - The Currency War (January 26, 2003)
...ends to topple Saddam in 2003 in a pre-emptive attempt to initiate massive Iraqi oil production in far excess of OPEC quotas, to reduce global oil prices, and... - What We Do Now (April 21, 2003)
...esisted. § No war for oil. We oppose any US effort to seize control of Iraqi oil or to demand a percentage of Iraqi oil revenues. Ownership of Iraqi oil sh... - World Image of US Declines (December 5, 2002)
...ted in achieving stability in the region or more interested in controlling Iraqi oil reserves, majorities in Russia (76 percent), France (75 percent), and Germ... - Saddam in the Crosshairs (November 21, 2001)
...adership in Baghdad, backed by the deployment of American troops to secure Iraqi oil fields. The board also implicitly slammed Powell, declaring that "coalitio... - The Sunshine Warrior (September 22, 2002)
...more pleased than not that democracy in Iraq (and a free flow of competing Iraqi oil) makes the Saudis uneasy. He does not sound so sure that rocking the stabi... - The Day of the Anti-War Protests (February 16, 2003)
...h Iraq would be less about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction than about Iraq's oil. Scores of signs read, "No Blood for Oil," and protesters chanted, "One, t... - An Unnecessary War (January 1, 2003)
...troleum Exporting Countries, which drove down world oil prices and reduced Iraqi oil profits. Saddam tried using diplomacy to solve the problem, but Kuwait har... - The Parade of the Body Bags (August 9, 2003)
...sts. Congress estimates the occupation cost is in the US$ 4bn/month orbit. Iraqi oil revenues will be partly absorbed to cover these costs, but eventually it m... - White House Web Scrubbing (December 18, 2003)
...who have already made pledges, Britain, Germany, Norway, Japan, Canada and Iraqi oil revenues ... But the American part of this will be $1.7 billion. We have n... - Bush Developing Military Policy Of Striking First (June 10, 2002)
...rily be against Iraqi weapons sites but might instead involve a seizure of Iraqi oil fields. But a senior administration official dismissed the idea of a "b... - Taking Back the Market ñ By Force (July 16, 2002)
...aq. Why not begin with a large-scale special-forces commando raid on the Iraqi oil fields? This will send a shot across Saddam's bow; an electrifying signal... - Army Censors Reporters (November 26, 2003)
...aqis will welcome us as conquering heroes as soon as we depose Hussein. Iraqi oil will pay to rebuild the country. Major combat has ended. Mission acc... - How We Helped Create Saddam (September 23, 2002)
...Fók them!î The United States was much more concerned with protecting Iraqi oil from attacks by Iran as it was shipped through the Persian Gulf. In 1987,... - Iraqi Press Summary (19-27 Dec. 2004) (December 27, 2004)
...nt by the oil minister noting that there is a multi-facet plan to ruin the Iraqi oil fortune. The minister calls on the people to cooperate with the authoritie... - The New Pentagon Papers (March 10, 2004)
...ad written his dissertation on Winston Churchill and was going to work on "Iraqi oil issues." He was David Makovsky's younger brother. David was at the time a... - What I Heard about Iraq (February 3, 2005)
...tion. I heard that an official audit could not account for $8.8 billion of Iraqi oil money given to Iraqi ministries by the Coalition Provisional Authority. ... - Baghdad Year Zero: Pillaging Iraq In Pursuit Of A Neocon Utopia (September 24, 2004)
...as preparing to offer substantial loans guaranteed against future sales of Iraqi oil, and the bell was going to ring on a New York‒style stock exchange i... - Which War: A One-Shot Publication of Social Reconnaissance (March 1, 2004)
...doning the old dollar for the new euro. For the United States, controlling Iraqi oil would be the solution to quite a few of its problems. Then, it is obse...
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