December 31, 2005
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.
http://www.williambowles.info/ini/ini-0377.html
