Sources for pre 9/11 US Plan for Iraq War and Oil in this Palast article:

[cyberpj]

Am I wrong? Wouldn't this support Downing Stree Info? Wouldn't these people have to testify if subpoenaed? Should we send this to DSM action groups?

This information was out in March 2005
Secret US plans for Iraq's oil
By Greg Palast - Reporting for Newsnight

The Bush administration made plans for war and for Iraq's oil before the 9/11 attacks, sparking a policy battle between neo-cons and Big Oil, BBC's Newsnight has revealed.

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In fact there were two conflicting plans, setting off a hidden policy war between neo-conservatives at the Pentagon, on one side, versus a combination of "Big Oil" executives and US State Department "pragmatists".

Insiders told Newsnight that planning began "within weeks" of Bush's first taking office in 2001, long before the September 11th attack on the US.

We saw an increase in the bombing of oil facilities and pipelines built on the premise that privatisation is coming

An Iraqi-born oil industry consultant, Falah Aljibury, says he took part in the secret meetings in California, Washington and the Middle East. He described a State Department plan for a forced coup d'etat.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4354269.stm

[understandinglife]

1. Yes. This is an important report.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4173.htm


WE THE PEOPLE .... WILL NEVER FORGET

"... we sent our young people into harm's way without leveling with the American people." - Congresswoman Pelosi before Congress, 16 June 2005

Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - IT IS THE LAW, EVERYONE.

[cyberpj]

3. Thanks but not a lot of remarks, huh? ps - powerful site. nt.

[Octafish]

2. It isn't just oil. It's about a whole bunch of oil.

And, of course, there are all those military and rebuilding contracts.

EXCERPT from OP:

Privatisation blocked by industry

Philip Carroll, the former CEO of Shell Oil USA who took control of Iraq's oil production for the US Government a month after the invasion, stalled the sell-off scheme.

Mr Carroll told us he made it clear to Paul Bremer, the US occupation chief who arrived in Iraq in May 2003, that: "There was to be no privatisation of Iraqi oil resources or facilities while I was involved."

Ariel Cohen, of the neo-conservative Heritage Foundation, told Newsnight that an opportunity had been missed to privatise Iraq's oil fields.

SNIP...

New plans, obtained from the State Department by Newsnight and Harper's Magazine under the US Freedom of Information Act, called for creation of a state-owned oil company favoured by the US oil industry. It was completed in January 2004 under the guidance of Amy Jaffe of the James Baker Institute in Texas.

Formerly US Secretary of State, Baker is now an attorney representing Exxon-Mobil and the Saudi Arabian government.

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Source OP.

Most important article. Thanks for the heads-up, cyberpj!