The Man Who Bought the Oil From Iraq
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Oscar S. Wyatt, a Texas entrepreneur and oilman, traveled to Baghdad as the United States was preparing for war, to meet with officials in Saddam Hussein's government.
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Iraq's oil minister said Tuesday that crude oil began to flow from his country's northern oil-rich Kirkuk to a Turkish export terminal last week &#151; for the first time since Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003.
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Iraq plans to spend $800m to the end of 2006 on importing oil to prevent a fuel shortage, says the oil ministry.
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Iraq was scrambling to confirm on  Monday whether the most wanted Saddam Hussein aide still on the  run had been captured, after a day of government confusion with  top officials making contradictory statements.  Iraq's Defense Ministry said on Sunday that Izzat Ibrahim  al-Douri, who was sixth on a U.S. list of the 55 most wanted  members of Saddam's regime and had a $10 million price on his  head, had been captured in Saddam's power base of Tikrit.
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Ahmad Chalabi is an ambitious man who doesn't give up without a fight. The longtime Iraqi exile who always wanted to be prime minister was once also Washington's choice for the job, before it accused him of cozying up to Iran.
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Comment is free: Patrick Seale: The US plans permanent military bases in Iraq, confirming to many that it really was all about oil.
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WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein illegally pocketed a staggering $21 billion from the scandal-scarred UN oil-for-food program â-ore than twice the previous estimate, congressional investigators said yesterday.
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For a while in postwar Iraq, life looked up for Ahlam al-Jibouri, who found a well-paid job working with the U.S. authorities after the 2003 invasion.
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An Iraqi-American businessman, accused of pocketing millions of dollars through the U.N. oil-for-food program with Iraq, pleaded guilty Tuesday to acting as an illegal agent of Saddam Hussein's government.
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Majid is accused of having ordered 1988 gassing of the Kurds in Halabja that killed some 5,000 people. BAGHDAD - Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam Hussein nicknamed &quot;Chemical Ali&quot; for the gassing of
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A U.S. soldier who served in Iraq was so moved by the story of Youssif he had to do something.
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From camels to Clinton to Kaddafi to Iraq. A constituency leader who helped Tony Blair rise to power revisits the prime minister's early days in politics.
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For years, Saddam Hussein showed himself to be a master practitioner of the big bluff. Everyone outside Iraq and just about everyone inside believed that he harbored a secret stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.
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The oil company Total named Christophe de Margerie, formerly the companyâs No. 2 executive, as its chief. Mr. de Margerie is under investigation in France over a possible plan to pay foreign officials for the right to drill in their countries, linked to the oil-for-food program for Iraq. Total, following the footsteps of several big French companies, announced last year that it would split the jobs of chief executive and chairman, leaving Thierry Desmarest, who currently holds both posts, as chairman only. Mr. de Margerie, left, currently head of the exploration and production division, has worked for Total for more than 30 years. The French authorities placed him under investigation in October for âcomplicity in the abuse of company goodsâ and âcomplicity in corrupting foreign officials.â Total insists it has abided by the rules of the United Nations oil-for-food program, which allowed Saddam Hussein to sell oil in exchange for humanitarian goods.
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An Iraqi government contractor confessed on Jordanian television to kidnapping and killing on the orders of al-Qaida in Iraq before he was lured to Jordan and arrested.
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U.S. oil companies and a Texas oil investor received lucrative vouchers that enabled them to buy Iraqi oil under the U.N. oil-for-food program.
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The US-led authority that ran Iraq after the war wasted millions of dollars, says a former official.