Iraq Oil Money

Pentagon Can't Account For $8.78 BILLION In Iraqi Reconstruction Money

AP | TAREK EL-TABLAWY | Posted 05.25.2011

BAGHDAD — A U.S. audit has found that the Pentagon cannot account for over 95 percent of $9.1 billion in Iraq reconstruction money, spotlighting...

Iraq Oil Contracts Have Uncertain Future

GlobalPost | Matthew Hart | Posted 05.25.2011

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Now that the votes have been counted, the first big test facing Iraq's fragile democracy is whether it can make the tra...

Peter W. Galbraith, American Adviser to Kurds, Stands to Reap Huge Oil Profits

nytimes.com | JAMES GLANZ and WALTER GIBBS | Posted 05.25.2011

OSLO -- Peter W. Galbraith, an influential former American ambassador, is a powerful voice on Iraq who helped shape the views of policy makers like Jo...

Iraq Oil: Investors Nervous

New York Times | TIMOTHY WILLIAMS | Posted 05.25.2011

BAGHDAD -- In its drive to expand and modernize Iraq's oil sector, the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is stumbling over the competi...

Shell And Iraq Government Agree On Landmark $4 Billion Deal

Financial Times | Ed Crooks and Roula Khalaf | Posted 05.25.2011

Royal Dutch Shell is to become the first western oil company to sign a deal with the Iraqi government since the US-led invasion of 2003, agreeing a pl...

Richard Perle, War Architect, Exploring Iraq Oil Deal

Posted 05.25.2011

The Wall Street Journal reports that neoconservative war architect Richard Perle is getting back into Iraq: Influential former Pentagon official Richa...

Iraq's Financial Free Ride May End

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Iraq's financial free ride may be over. After five years, Republicans and Democrats seem to have found common ground on at least on...

Senate Seeking Audit Of Iraq Oil Money

New York Times | JAMES GLANZ | Posted 05.25.2011

Two senior members of the Senate Armed Services Committee have requested a full accounting of how Iraq is spending its soaring oil revenues, amid star...