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LINKS TO GEN'L INFO & A CHRONOLOGY OF ON-LINE SOURCES ABOUT
 OIL, CONTRACTS & THE IRAQ WAR
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GENERAL INFO

• Iraq Coalition Casualty Count
  Running tally of US military deaths and casualties, as well as civilian, in both Iraq & Afghanistan theaters.
• Honor the Fallen: Those Who Fought & Died in Operations
    Iraqi Freedom & Enduring Freedom
  Searchable database, with photos, of servicemen and women who have died in these ops.
• PBS Frontline Investigative Reports
  • Bush's War
    Two-hour special on how the Iraq War unfolded with a focus on the primary parties, including Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, Wolfowitz, Armitage, et al.
  • Bad Voodoo's War
    There's the war from the perspective of the war-rooms of DoD & the NSA, and then there's the real war.  Director Deborah Scranton handed out video cameras to a platoon of National Guardsmen, many of whom had served in Iraq on prior tours as Regular Army, as they re-deployed to run convoy duty.  This is the footage they sent back.
• Halliburton Watch
  Watchdog group's running account of this major private oil infrastructure & logistics contractor in the Iraq.
• Retail Gasoline Historical Prices: Energy Information Administration
• Yahoo Finance [for historical stock prices & earnings reports]

BEFORE THE WAR BEGAN ...

• VP Cheney's Energy Task Force Documents [FOIA from Judicial Watch, 5 Mar 2001]
  Documents from the VP's secret task force on the many countries which were interested in divvying up Iraq's oil reserves.
• Reps. Dingell and Waxman ask for GAO audit of Cheney's "Energy Task Force" [19 April 2001]
  After years of stonewalling Congress and the GAO, only partial info is provided on secret Task Force members & activities.
• US buys up Iraqi oil to stave off crisis [The Guardian, UK,  26 Jan 2003]
  "Weeks before a prospective invasion of Iraq, the oil-rich state has doubled its exports of oil to America, helping US refineries cope ..."
• Energy policy: A future for Iraq's oil [GeoTimes, Feb. 2003]

THE WAR BEGINS: 20 March 2003

• KBR Implements Plan For Extinguishing Oil Well Fires In Iraq [Halliburton, 24 Mar 2003]
• Iraq rebuilding contracts awarded [CNNMoney, 25 Mar 2003]

BUSH ANNOUNCES "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED": 2 May 2003
NUMBER OF U.S. SERVICEMEN & WOMEN KIA: 139

• Halliburton contract goes beyond extinguishing oil fires [USAToday, 7 May 2003]
• Oil boss paid $1million a year by contract bidder [The Guardian, 17 May 2003]
  Pentagon-picked Texas businessman selected to run Iraq's oil industry on the payroll of oil contract bidder.  ...
• OPEC fears US may force Iraq to quit [Taipei Times, 27 May 2003]
  Oil Producing & Exporting Countries coalition concerned that US will pull Iraq out of the cartel.
• First Iraq Oil Contracts [Reuters newswire, reported in Moscow Times, 24 July 2003]
  "ChevronTexaco, ConocoPhillips, BP and Shell signed contracts running from Aug. 1 through Dec. 31, 2003, on Tuesday ..."
• GAO Report: ENERGY TASK FORCE: Process Used to Develop the National Energy Policy [Aug 2003]

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