Just What Does America Want to Do With Iraq's Oil?
Attention shoppers: Iraqi oil is for sale.
by TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN, New York Times June 8, 2003

Although Baghdad is still mired in crime and no weapons of mass destruction have surfaced in Iraq, Washington is helping market Iraqi oil with all due haste. A former Shell Oil executive heads a panel supervising Iraq's oil fields and crude will now be sold directly to refiners, thus eliminating a middleman role once dominated by Russian oil traders.

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