PRIOR & SUBSEQUENT 9/11 WAR PLANNING - PRIOR RESOURCE CONTROL / OIL ONLY -  IRAQ - AFGHANISTAN - IRAN

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CONTENTS

Countries - Iraq - Iran
Companies - Hunt Oil - Chevron - Halliburton
Projects - Afghanistan/Unocal-Bridas/pipeline - Cheney's Energy Task Force
Famous people / quotes

PRIOR WAR PLANNING / GENERAL

Bush Sought ‘Way’ To Invade Iraq?
Bomb Saddam? - How the obsession of a few neocon hawks became the central goal of U.S. foreign policy
The Iraq Hawks
Iraq Is Focal Point as Bush Meets With Joint Chiefs
The armchair general
The Military-Petroleum Complex
The oily truth about America’s foreign policy

DOWNING STREET MEMOS

THE DOWNING STREET MEMO

9/11 - RESOURCE CONTROL - OIL ONLY / SPECIFIC COMPANIES / PROJECTS / COUNTRIES

GENERAL
- PRIOR - 9/11

Context of '1991-1997: Oil Investment in Central Asia Follows Soviet Collapse' - timeline
Big Oil, Big Lies - sourcewatch
'US Invasion of Iraq Was a Resource War'
It's STILL The Oil: - Secret Condi Meeting on Oil Before Invasion

Halliburton

The Secret Deal For Iraq's Oil

Cheney - Energy Task Force

CHENEY ENERGY TASK FORCE DOCUMENTS FEATURE MAP OF IRAQI OILFIELDS - multiple maps
The Cheney Energy Task Force - multiple documents
Slick Dick Cheney's 2001 Energy Task Force Meetings Participants - complet list of participants
Cheney Energy Task Force - sourcewatch
What Cheney's Energy Task Force Talked About
Why so secretive?
Energy Task Force
Axis of Oil and Iraq
Secrets of Cheney's Energy Task Force Come to Light
Cheney's Oil Maps - Can the Real Reason for War be This Crass?
Bush-Cheney Energy Strategy: Procuring the Rest of the World’s Oil
US: Document Says Oil Chiefs Met With Cheney Task Force
US: Energy Task Force Documents Show Industry Influence
Document Says Oil Chiefs Met With Cheney Task Force
Cheney aide now lobbyist on energy
Cheney's day before Supreme Court - Sierra Club, Judicial Watch eye energy task force
High court hears arguments on Cheney task force
Sierra Club Files Suit Against Cheney's Energy Task Force
G.A.O. Suit Against Cheney's Energy Task Force Is Dismissed
Papers Detail Industry's Role in Cheney's Energy Report

IRAQ

General


A Timeline of Oil and Violence - II - Iraq - timeline
Slick Connections: U.S. Influence on Iraqi Oil
Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer - James S. Brady Press Briefing Room - White House press brief
Playing the Iraq Oil Card

Prior - 9/11

Maps and Charts of Iraqi Oil Fields - multiple documents - charts and maps
White House energy task forcepapers reveal Iraqi oil maps
Did Big Oil participate in planning the invasion of Iraq?
ExxonMobil, Shell Neck-and-Neck in War Oil Sales
Document Says Oil Chiefs Met With Cheney Task Force
Contract Sport
Cheney and the Oil Bigs Planned U.S. War Policy Before 9/11
The Surreal Politics of Premeditated War

Subsequent - 9/11

Democrats And Republicans: Two Peas In A Pod?
Brass in Pocket: A Chronicle of Blood Money Foretold
Grand Theft Country: How George W. Bush Looted Iraq - multiple videos / articles
Iraqis to U.S. Congress: Back off oil law
Iraq's Workers Strike to Keep Their Oil
What Unites Iraqis: Blocking Western Petroleum Companies From Seizing Control of Their Oil
US seeks legal expert to oversee plunder of Iraqi oil
Iraqis Oppose Oil Privatization
Oil Law Brings US Intentions Into Focus
Top Iraq MP: No oil law under occupation
Good news from Baghdad at last: the oil law has stalled
THE BUSH-CHENEY OIL WAR
Iraq unions vow 'mutiny' over oil law
Iraqi Unions Fight the New Oil Law
Opposition to American Oil Grab Is Unifying Iraqis
Founder of Iraq Oil Workers Union Rejects U.S.-Backed Oil Law as "Robbery"
Iraq to pay oil firms to boost its output
IRAQ: Forbidden fields: Oil groups circle the prize of Iraq's vast reserves
Basra strike against Shiite militias also about oil - Iraq's oil minister says the assault helped curb oil smuggling.
Disaster Capitalism: State of Extortion
It Was Oil, All Along

BRIDAS - UNOCAL / AFGHANISTAN / PIPELINE PROJECT

General

A Timeline of Oil and Violence - Afghanistan - timeline

Prior - 9/11

Timeline of Competition between Unocal and Bridas for the Afghanistan Pipeline - timeline
Unocal and the Afghanistan pipeline
Afghanistan plans gas pipeline
Taleban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline
War on Terrorism or Oil War? See the Map of the Pipeline! - multiple articles
Afghanistan Aims to Revive Pipeline Plans
The Afghan Pipeline Project - An Oil-Soaked History

Subsequent - 9/11

Is Enron Behind The War In Afghanistan? - multiple articles
Afghanistan Aims to Revive Pipeline Plans

9/11 - RESOURCE CONTROL - OIL ONLY / SPECIFIC COMPANIES / PROJECTS / COUNTRIES

GENERAL - SUBSEQUENT - 9/11

IRAN

Prior - 9/11
Subsequent - 9/11
Oil Bourse

Iran oil bourse 'won't undermine US instruments'

Congress

What Congress Really Approved: Benchmark No. 1: Privatizing Iraq's Oil for US Companies

IT'S ABOUT THE OIL - FAMOUS QUOTES / PEOPLE

Alan Greenspan

Alan Greenspan Claims Iraq War Was Really for Oil
Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, It's the Oil, Stupid
Oil and Betrayal in Iraq
Greenspan and the Economy of Greed - As the Empire Slips

Henry Kissinger

Greenspan, Kissinger: Oil Drives U.S. in Iraq, Iran
Kissinger Admits Iran Attack Is About Oil
Kissinger Admits Iran Attack Is About Oil
Bliderberg Plan - Control Oil, Control People

Gen. John Abizaid

Former Centcom General: 'Of course' Iraq is about oil

George Bush

Bush Cites Oil As Reason to Stay in Iraq

Paul Wolfowitz

Wolfowitz: �Iraq War Was About Oil�

John Howard - PM of Australia

Howard links Iraq war to oil

Chuck Hagel

Hagel Skewers Iraq War, Defends Greenspan's Oil Comments

Hans Blix

Always a War for Oil

Kemal Unakitan

Turkish FM: U.S. launched war for Iraq oil

James Ellery Brigadier-General CBE

Ex-British Army chief in Iraq confirms peak oil motive for war; praises fraudulent reconstruction programmes

HUNT ENERGY OF DALLAS - Ray Hunt pres.


Bush Oil Buddies Divvy Up Iraq (Money Doesn't Talk, It Swears)
Let's Make an Oil Deal
Ray Hunt: Elevating Tensions Since 1974
Why Ray Hunt is so powerful
Bush’s pals begin the looting of Iraq
The Hunt for Oil
Texas Co. Signs Iraq Oil Deal With Kurds
Canadian Company Grabs Second Oil Contract in Iraq
Hunt Denies His Political Ties Aided Kurdish Pact
Hunt oil deal creating tension in Iraq: US
Analysis: Hunt, State talked on Iraq oil
Bush-linked Texas company signs oil deal with Iraqi Kurds
UPDATE 1-Iraq Kurdish region signs oil deal with U.S. Hunt
Dallas Oil Company Signs Deal With Kurds
Inquiry urged on Hunt Oil contract in Iraq
Bush Iraq Oil Policy: "Crony Capitalism" at its Worst
Bush-Cheney Crony Got Iraq Oil Deal
The Pentagon and the Hunt for Black Gold - The Oil Deal Nobody Wants to Talk About

Chevron

US and French Oil Conglomerates Share the Spoils of War

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