Were there links between oil firms and invasion of Iraq?
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Here is an article from the UK Independent Newspaper in 2011 pointing up how oil interests and Iraq rebuilding contracts were excluded from the Chilcot Inquiry. I have a primary source who was offered an ‘In’ on Iraq rebuild contracts. They refused on moral grounds.
‘Mr Muttitt, whose book Fuel on the Fire is published next week, said: “Before the war, the Government went to great lengths to insist it had no interest in Iraq’s oil. These documents provide the evidence that give the lie to those claims.
“We see that oil was in fact one of the Government’s most important strategic considerations, and it secretly colluded with oil companies to give them access to that huge prize.”
Lady Symons, 59, later took up an advisory post with a UK merchant bank that cashed in on post-war Iraq reconstruction contracts. Last month she severed links as an unpaid adviser to Libya’s National Economic Development Board after Colonel Gaddafi started firing on protesters. Last night, BP and Shell declined to comment.’
Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq
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