Days before the fall of Saddam .. America facilitated the smuggling of 8 million barrels of oil

Days before the fall of Saddam .. America facilitated the smuggling of 8 million barrels of oil

08/28/2012

BAGHDAD / JD / .. Sources Press for the United States to facilitate the smuggling operation oil per quantity of eight million barrels of Iraq just days before the fall of Saddam’s regime.
has published Middle Arabia today and confidential documents issued by the Oil Marketing Company of the Iraqi Oil Ministry, which dates back to 2003, just before exposure Iraq of the American invasion, appear for a Jordanian company permission to download nearly eight million barrels of Iraqi oil, mostly before the start of the invasion of Iraq.
According to documents allow authorizations to transfer seven shipments of oil totaling 7.7 million barrels of crude oil Basra and al-Amaya, but information «Middle »stating that the transfer was for five shipments only because of the outbreak of war.
explains the secret documents that were transferred shipments through the port of Iraqi small was not used officially, but used in some oil shipments smuggled to circumvent the ban that was imposed on Iraq at the time, which is the port of Khor al-Amaya . According to the documents have been paying the price in cash in euros, compared with preferential price only 6.8 dollars per barrel, while the price of oil at the time about 28 dollars per barrel.
Al «Middle» that those shipments were transported with the tacit approval by the U.S. side, despite the blockade imposed on Iraq , so as to compensate Jordan for any possible disruption of oil during the invasion, where such shipments dedicated to the Jordanian government.
confirm documents that Transport carried out by a company Millennium trade raw materials and mineral oils Jordan, a company owned by businessman known Khaled Shaheen, who is serving a sentence ends now in prison Jordan on the back of a bribe.
Later, he took Shaheen himself contracts to supply the U.S. military in Iraq after the occupation is a known relationship figures Jordanian official figures.
noteworthy that the company was created in 2002, and then filtered optionally in 2004 as records show Companies Control Department Jordan.
sources confirm «Middle» that these shipments did not arrive to Jordan, but was stored in Sharjah by the subsidiaries of Shaheen, then was sold in the market for a company Millennium, without being converted their price to the Jordanian government.
known that Jordan was gets oil at preferential prices by Saddam’s regime. / end / agencies /
Source: dananernews