[caption id="attachment_101937" align="aligncenter" width="590" caption="irak oil (doc: reuters)"][/caption] Secret Memo dari kantor Perdana Mentri dibuka. Terungkap kebohongan Perusahaan energi BP (British Petroleum) Inggris, Shell Oil Belanda, PM Tony Blair, dan Presiden George Bush tentang alasan Perang Irak 2003. Ternyata 5 bulan sebelum perang, pengusaha minyak dan mentri-mentri berunding agar memperoleh jatah sumur minyak Irak. Greg Muttitt, aktivis anti perang, membuktikan bahwa mencuri minyak Irak adalah alasan utama. Bahkan "pahlawan perang Irak" jendral Jay Gerner dan jendral John Abizaid kini menikmati kontrak pengeboran minyak di Irak yang tiba-tiba tercabik-cabik. Wacana Penjahat Perang terhadap George Bush dan Tony Blair dan pihak terkait kembali mencuat. Aktivis anti perang Greg Muttitt kini menjadi perhatian publik Inggris setelah mengungkap memo rahasia yang baru diperoleh 5 tahun kemudian tentang Perang Irak 2003. Ini ada kaitannya dengan rencana penerbitan bukunya pekan depan berjudul Fuel On The Fire: Oil And Politics In Occupied Iraq. Artikelnya kemarin 19-apr-2011 di The Independent disambut meriah. Beberapa point penting di dalamnya dan dari artikel lain yang terkait dapat ditarik sbb: 1) Semua pemimpin politik dan pengusaha minyak, utamanya George Bush dan Tony Blair berdusta bahwa alasan mereka menyerang Irak karena senjata pemusnah massal dan terorisme, yang benar mereka mengincar sumur-sumur minyak Irak sebagai produsen nomor 4 di dunia. 2) Mentri Perdagangan Inggris berunding dengan eksekutif British Petroleum dan Shell Oil, 5 bulan sebelum Perang Irak, untuk menjamin agar mereka mendapat jatah sumur minyak setelah selesai perang. Sebuah alasan yang membenarkan dukungan Inggris kepada Amerika untuk menyerang Irak. 3) Setelah perang Amerika menyusupkan anggota parlemen di Irak untuk menerbitkan Undang-Undang Perminyakan yang mensahkan privatisasi sektor minyak - sebuah upaya agar sumur-sumur minyak pindah tangan kepada swasta asing khususnya dari Amerika, Inggris, Belanda, Prancis, Itali. 4) Pengalaman Greg Muttitt melakukan penelitian di Irak menemukan fakta bahwa rakyat Irak tidak peduli dengan penggolongan Sunni, Syiah, dan Kurdi. Penggolongan tersebut hanya dibahas oleh politisi sebagai taktik opini publik. [caption id="attachment_101824" align="alignright" width="225" caption="Jay Garner"][/caption] 5) Dari komentator terungkap. Jendral Jay Garner dan Jendral John Abizaid yang terlibat rencana Perang Irak diketahui menjadi dewan penasehat Vast Exploration, kontraktor yang menikmati sumur-sumur minyak di wilayah Kurdi Utara tanpa sepengetahuan pemerintah pusat Irak. Diam-diam beberapa kontraktor minyak menyusup ke Irak tanpa pemberitaan. 6) Juga dari komentator yang sama, kutip: " BP, Exxon, Shell, ENI and other western oil majors have been awarded oil contracts in Iraq. They have secured the largest remaining, yet under-exploited, oilfields in the world. But that is just part of the Iraqi oil story. If people really want to understand what is happening to Iraqi oil, a more troubling side of it is in the north. Google the following companies: Gulf Keystone petroleum Sterling Energy Shamaran Petroleum Vast Exploration Longford Energy Talisman Energy Niko Resources 8) Sebagai produsen minyak nomor 4 dunia kini Irak hanya menempati posisi ke 10 tanpa ada kejelasan. [caption id="attachment_101819" align="aligncenter" width="630" caption="Irak Oil share out (doc: the independent UK)"]
[/caption] 9) Resolusi Dewan Keamanan PBB yang dilengkapi dengan Hak Veto khusus 5 negara terbukti sering disalahgunakan pemegang Hak Veto (Amerika, Inggris, Prancis, Rusia, China) untuk legitimasi menghancurkan negara, membunuh jutaan manusia, serta merampas sumber daya alam.
Pasca Perang Irak 2003 Setelah perang, perhatikan pembagian sumur minyak Irak pada tabel di atas ini. Perhatikan pula jendral - jendral yang nama dan wajahnya sering menghiasi layar teve 2003 sebelum dan sesudah Perang Irak. Kedua jendral ini diam-diam kebagian sumur minyak setelah sukses "membebaskan rakyat Irak dari kegelapan". Nama mereka terpampang dalam daftar utama Advisory Board (Dewan Penasehat) Vast Exploration pada website resmi tanpa ada rasa malu sedikitpun. Ini menyusul penjarahan lebih besar oleh Halliburton milik mantan Wakil Presiden Dick Cheney.
Jendral Jay Garner salah pensiunan jendral yang dipercaya oleh Donald Ramsfeld untuk menjalankan OHRA yaitu proyek rekontruksi pasca perang, sebuah upaya kemanusiaan yang luhur dan mulia. Setelah menghancurleburkan Irak kini duduk manislah dia sebagai dewan penasehat Vast Exploration menikmati sumur minyak Irak sebagai paket pensiun. [caption id="attachment_101820" align="alignleft" width="304" caption="Gen Jphn P Abizaid"]
[/caption] Kemudian Jendral
John P. Abizaid, komandan U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), berdinas operasi militer di Timur Tengah (Irak dan Afghanistan). Pahlawan Perang Irak berdarah Lebanon. Dari interview
St Petersberg Times: In Search Of Ground Truth edisi 17-sep-2006, Abizaid berseru "Telling the truth" (sampaikan kebenaran). Dan benar, setelah menghancurkan Irak lalu duduk manis menjadi dewan penasehat Vast Exploration menikmati sumur minyak Irak sebagai paket pensiun. Profile dan operasi CENTCOM menunjukan data penting di mana 65% mencakup tanah negeri yang menyimpan lahan minyak, sbb:
CENTCOM'S REGION BY THE NUMBERS 651 million people,
27 countries,
7 major languages,
12 major religious groups,
18 major ethnic groups,
65% of the world's known oil reserves. Untuk lengkapnya artikel utama yang ditulis oleh Greg Mittitt di dalam
The Independent Inggris edisi 19-apr-2011, silakan baca full copy di bawah ini: [caption id="attachment_101827" align="aligncenter" width="394" caption="Greg Muttitt and Hassan Juma (doc: gulfnews)"]
[/caption] ::: The papers, revealed here for the first time, raise new questions over Britain’s involvement in the war, which had divided Tony Blair’s cabinet and was voted through only after his claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The minutes of a series of meetings between ministers and senior oil executives are at odds with the public denials of self-interest from oil companies and Western governments at the time. The documents were not offered as evidence in the ongoing Chilcot Inquiry into the UK’s involvement in the Iraq war. In March 2003, just before Britain went to war, Shell denounced reports that it had held talks with Downing Street about Iraqi oil as “highly inaccurate”. BP denied that it had any “strategic interest” in Iraq, while Tony Blair described “the oil conspiracy theory” as “the most absurd”. But documents from October and November the previous year paint a very different picture. Five months before the March 2003 invasion, Baroness Symons, then the Trade Minister, told BP that the Government believed British energy firms should be given a share of Iraq’s enormous oil and gas reserves as a reward for Tony Blair’s military commitment to US plans for regime change. The papers show that Lady Symons agreed to lobby the Bush administration on BP’s behalf because the oil giant feared it was being “locked out” of deals that Washington was quietly striking with US, French and Russian governments and their energy firms. Minutes of a meeting with BP, Shell and BG (formerly British Gas) on 31 October 2002 read: “Baroness Symons agreed that it would be difficult to justify British companies losing out in Iraq in that way if the UK had itself been a conspicuous supporter of the US government throughout the crisis.” The minister then promised to “report back to the companies before Christmas” on her lobbying efforts. The Foreign Office invited BP in on 6 November 2002 to talk about opportunities in Iraq “post regime change”. Its minutes state: “Iraq is the big oil prospect. BP is desperate to get in there and anxious that political deals should not deny them the opportunity.” After another meeting, this one in October 2002, the Foreign Office’s Middle East director at the time, Edward Chaplin, noted: “Shell and BP could not afford not to have a stake in [Iraq] for the sake of their long-term future… We were determined to get a fair slice of the action for UK companies in a post-Saddam Iraq.” Whereas BP was insisting in public that it had “no strategic interest” in Iraq, in private it told the Foreign Office that Iraq was “more important than anything we’ve seen for a long time”. BP was concerned that if Washington allowed TotalFinaElf’s existing contact with Saddam Hussein to stand after the invasion it would make the French conglomerate the world’s leading oil company. BP told the Government it was willing to take “big risks” to get a share of the Iraqi reserves, the second largest in the world. Over 1,000 documents were obtained under Freedom of Information over five years by the oil campaigner Greg Muttitt. They reveal that at least five meetings were held between civil servants, ministers and BP and Shell in late 2002. The 20-year contracts signed in the wake of the invasion were the largest in the history of the oil industry. They covered half of Iraq’s reserves – 60 billion barrels of oil, bought up by companies such as BP and CNPC (China National Petroleum Company), whose joint consortium alone stands to make £403m ($658m) profit per year from the Rumaila field in southern Iraq. Last week, Iraq raised its oil output to the highest level for almost decade, 2.7 million barrels a day – seen as especially important at the moment given the regional volatility and loss of Libyan output. Many opponents of the war suspected that one of Washington’s main ambitions in invading Iraq was to secure a cheap and plentiful source of oil. Mr Muttitt, whose book
Fuel On The Fire is published next week, said: “Before the war, the Government went to great lengths to insist it had no interest in Iraq’s oil. These documents provide the evidence that give the lie to those claims. “We see that oil was in fact one of the Government’s most important strategic considerations, and it secretly colluded with oil companies to give them access to that huge prize.” Lady Symons, 59, later took up an advisory post with a UK merchant bank that cashed in on post-war Iraq reconstruction contracts. Last month she severed links as an unpaid adviser to Libya’s National Economic Development Board after Colonel Gaddafi started firing on protesters. Last night, BP and Shell declined to comment. Not about oil? what they said before the invasion * Foreign Office memorandum, 13 November 2002, following meeting with BP: “Iraq is the big oil prospect. BP are desperate to get in there and anxious that political deals should not deny them the opportunity to compete. The long-term potential is enormous…” * Tony Blair, 6 February 2003: “Let me just deal with the oil thing because… the oil conspiracy theory is honestly one of the most absurd when you analyse it. The fact is that, if the oil that Iraq has were our concern, I mean we could probably cut a deal with Saddam tomorrow in relation to the oil. It’s not the oil that is the issue, it is the weapons…” * BP, 12 March 2003: “We have no strategic interest in Iraq. If whoever comes to power wants Western involvement post the war, if there is a war, all we have ever said is that it should be on a level playing field. We are certainly not pushing for involvement.” * Lord Browne, the then-BP chief executive, 12 March 2003: “It is not in my or BP’s opinion, a war about oil. Iraq is an important producer, but it must decide what to do with its patrimony and oil.” * Shell, 12 March 2003, said reports that it had discussed oil opportunities with Downing Street were ‘highly inaccurate’, adding: “We have neither sought nor attended meetings with officials in the UK Government on the subject of Iraq. The subject has only come up during conversations during normal meetings we attend from time to time with officials… We have never asked for ‘contracts’.”
Fuel On The Fire: Oil And Politics In Occupied Iraq by Greg Muttitt :::
PENUTUP: Artikel Greg Muttitt mendapat sambutan deras, lebih dari 900 komen, berdiskusi panjang. Banyak kutukan kepada BP dan Shell Oil diungkapkan dengan seruan boikot produk mereka. Kedua raksasa tersebut tak bergeming, tak pula berkomentar. Sama bungkamnya seperti pejabat Inggris yang terlibat. Yang pasti bendera BP dan Shell Oil kian berkibar di mana-mana, termasuk di jalan-jalan di kota Jakarta. *) sumber: The Independent, The Daily Mirror, Gulf News, St Pettersburg Times By Ragile :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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