{"id":195552,"date":"2008-06-30T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/30\/us-directed-iraqi-decisions-on-no-bid-oil-deals\/"},"modified":"2008-06-30T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T04:02:00","slug":"us-directed-iraqi-decisions-on-no-bid-oil-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/30\/us-directed-iraqi-decisions-on-no-bid-oil-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"US Directed Iraqi Decisions on No Bid Oil Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it now appears that these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/30\/world\/middleeast\/30contract.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">no bid oil service contracts were drawn up by a, &#8220;A group of American advisers led by a small State Department team.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This confirms what was already suspected, that the deal was done by and for the US, and not for the owners of this oil, the Iraqi people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it now appears that these no bid oil service contracts were drawn up by a, &#8220;A group of American advisers led by a small State Department team.&#8221; This confirms what was already suspected, that the deal was done by and for the US, and not for the owners of this oil, the Iraqi people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1135,964,1063],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-energy","category-foreign-relations","category-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}