Foreign Office helped set up Iraqi oil deals

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The British Government intervened to help UK and US energy giants in their attempts to secure lucrative contracts to exploit Iraq's ruined oilfields.

The Foreign Office delivered a report by the International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC) - a Washington-based think-tank backed by a host of multinationals, including oil companies such as Shell and BP - to Iraqi officials in Baghdad, it has emerged.

The British ambassador to Iraq formally sent the "road-map" study on the Iraqi oil industry to the then Iraqi minister of finance, according to documents seen by The Independent on Sunday. The study recommended the Iraqi government sign long-term production-sharing agreements with foreign oil companies.

Emails between civil servants also showed that the Foreign Office helped the ITIC secure an audience with senior officials from the Iraqi Oil Ministry so that it could present its report.

http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article2347416.ece

[Amonester]

1. Colonialists one day...

Colonialists every day.

They'll steal 3 barrels out of 4 that belong to the Iraqi people.

They've been charging the "security" expenses on the taxpayers for 4 years, and they will continue to charge them, until...

Until what?