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サッダーム・フセインはイランを恐れるあまりブッシュに「保護」を求めていた事実が、ＦＢＩ機密文書の開示で明らかになった
情報公開法によって開示された米国ＦＢＩの機密文書から、
サッダーム・フセインが、イランを何よりも恐がり、ブッシュに
保護を求めることさえしていた、という実情が明らかになった。
さらにサッダーム・フセインは、アル・カーイダとの関係も
強く否定していたという。
米国をはじめとする国際的な戦争屋とシオニストはこれと
正反対をインチキを宣伝してきたわけだが、イランと10年近くも
激戦を続け、米国の支援を受けていたのがイラクであり、
イスラム原理主義を嫌って中東有数の近代化政策を
押し進めてきたのがサッダーム・フセインであったという
単純な事実を見ただけで、これらの宣伝が嘘だということは
すぐわかる。
あわれサッダーム・フセインは、世界的な「悪魔」であると
フレームアップされ、イスラエルおよび米英その他のアングロ
アメリカン勢力とそれに付き従う日本をはじめとする
二級市民国家の共謀による侵略戦争で国を破壊されたあげくに、
裁判ショーで見世物にされてから殺された。
米国が、イランとイラクの対立というパワーバランス的「安定」を
ぶち壊してイラクを潰したのが、シオニストの偽装集団だった
ネオコンによるブッシュ政権操縦ばかりでなく、石油利権の強奪を
動機としたものだったことは今や疑問の余地なく明らかだ。
ブッシュ政権とブレア政権の戦犯だちだけでなく、戦争犯罪に
日本を巻き込んだ小泉ジョンイル郎や経団連会長（当時）悪田碩
なども、サッダーム・フセインが受けたのと同じやり方で裁かれ、
同じやり方で処刑されて当然であろう。
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/06/24/2009-06-24_former_iraqi_leader_saddam_hussein_feared_iran_more_than_us_secret_fbi_files_sho.html
Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein bluffed about WMDs fearing Iranian arsenal, secret FBI files show
BY James Gordon Meek
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Updated Wednesday, June 24th 2009, 4:59 PM
WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein feared Iran's arsenal more than a U.S. attack, and even considered asking ex-President George W. Bush "to protect" Iraq from its neighbor, once secret FBI files show.
The FBI interrogations of the toppled tyrant - codename "Desert Spider" - were declassified after a Freedom of Information Act request.
The records show Saddam happily boasted of duping the world about stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. And he consistently denied cooperating with Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda.
Of all his enemies, Iraq's ex-president - who insisted he still held office during captivity - hated Iran most.
Asked how he would have faced "fanatic" Iranian ayatollahs if Iraq had been proven toothless by UN weapons inspectors in 2003, Saddam said he would have cut a deal with Bush.
"Hussein replied Iraq would have been extremely vulnerable to attack from Iran and would have sought a security agreement with the U.S. to protect it from threats in the region," according to a 2004 FBI report among the declassified files.
Without Bush's help, "Iraq would have done what was necessary," he told FBI Agent George Piro in his Baghdad International Airport cell.
That didn't mean an alliance of evil with Al Qaeda, he insisted months into what he called a "dialogue" with Piro.
The interrogations unfolded in 2004 after his capture the previous December at the same farm where he said he'd hidden after orchestrating a failed 1959 coup plot.
Saddam denied ever laying eyes on the "zealot" Bin Laden, bent on striking the U.S.
He said he "did not have the same belief of vision" as the terror kingpin.
Saddam never sought Al Qaeda assistance because he feared the terror group would turn on him. To protect his country, the more likely ally "would have been North Korea."
Saddam also said the U.S. "used the 9/11 attack as a justification to attack Iraq" and "lost sight of the cause of 9/11."
The U.S. "was not Iraq's enemy," just its policies, Saddam explained.
Asked about WMDs, Saddam insisted: "We destroyed them. We told you."
"By God, if I had such weapons, I would have used them in the fight against the U.S," he added.
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http://businessmirror.com.ph/home/world/12333-iraq-opens-fields-exxon-shell-seek-foothold.html
Iraq opens fields; Exxon, Shell seek foothold
World
Friday, 26 June 2009 01:59
IRAQ is set to welcome back foreign oil companies into the war-torn nation to develop the world’s third-largest crude reserves three decades after expelling them.
Eight of the world’s top 10 nonstate oil producers, including Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, are vying for the right to help Iraq develop six oilfields and two natural-gas deposits. More than 30 companies in total are bidding for $16 billion worth of technical service contracts for producing fields that will be awarded in Baghdad on June 29 and 30.
“Iraq is the big prize in the region,” said Raja Kiwan, a Dubai-based analyst at consultants PFC Energy. “It is one of the only remaining areas that provide the level of upside for companies who want to access reserves.”
The Opec producer is struggling to increase output and revenue from crude sales after six years of conflict and prior sanctions destroyed the country’s economy and infrastructure.
The government, also running a second bidding round for 11 oil and gas fields, aims to boost production to about 6 million barrels a day by 2015, from 2.4 million barrels in May. Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, produces 8 million barrels a day.
Companies investing in Iraq are looking to take a stake in the long-term potential that the country’s 115 billion barrels of reserves hold after gaining a foothold through the service contracts for operational fields. Iraq may offer foreign companies direct stakes in deposits and allow them to sign production-sharing agreements for future fields, according to Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani.
Iraq will earn 100 times more than the foreign companies it hires to develop the deposits, the minister told parliament in Baghdad on June 23. The deposits being offered in the first licensing round may yield $1.7 trillion in profit for the country, based on an oil price of $50 a barrel, while oil companies seeking service contracts will gain $16 billion over the 20-year life of the contracts, he said.
Winning the oil contracts may be easier for foreign companies than contending with security threats in Iraq and objections to the bid-round by some lawmakers. Irving, Texas-based Exxon is still deciding whether to bid, chief executive officer Rex Tillerson said on June 16, while The Hague-based Shell was in talks with Chinese companies on bidding jointly for the contracts, CEO Jeroen van der Veer said April 14.
US troops are due to pull out of Iraq’s cities by June 30 and the entire country by the end of 2011, and Iraqi officials have said the nation’s security forces will be able to cope alone. Iraq and Britain signed a draft agreement on June 3 for some UK troops to remain in the country to help Iraqi naval forces protect oil platforms.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s government has been criticized by lawmakers for its failure to raise oil production faster and they want the licensing round scrapped because of concerns the deals won’t benefit Iraq.
Al-Shahristani defended the government policy in parliament this week, saying foreign investment will raise production and profit while overseas oil companies will get a fee for developing deposits without taking stakes in any fields.
Iraq’s reserves are so large and so little developed that foreign companies are willing to take the risk, said Tariq Shafiq, an adviser with London-based Petrolog & Associates and a former Iraqi Oil Ministry official who helped write the nation’s draft oil law. The country’s parliament has not approved the oil law due to disagreements between the government and lawmakers.
Oil companies are seeking access to new reserves as production declines at aging fields in the North Sea and resources like those in Saudi Arabia and Iran are restricted for foreign firms. The new Iraqi contracts may also increase demand for drilling and engineering equipment as companies compete for equipment to develop fields in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other Gulf countries.
“There’s a huge amount of pressure on all international oil companies looking at Iraq to make sure they have the first foot in,” said PFC Energy’s Kiwan.
Saudi Arabia is the world’s largest holder of reserves with 264 billion barrels, followed by Iran with almost 138 billion barrels. Iraq may be a more attractive long-term development for international investors since it has produced only about 8 percent of its oil compared with more than 20 percent by Saudi Arabia and Iran, Shafiq said.
(Bloomberg)
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