Since reading the BBC report,“Iraq ‘to shed’ US oil advisers”, I did a wee bit of a search on the “new” Oil Minister, technocrat Thamir Ghadhban.
Found this titbit: Was the war in Iraq a war for oil? Ghadhban said it is a difficult question: “It was not totally about oil, but I cannot say oil was not involved.”
Ghadhban ran the oil ministry for the U.S. immediately after the fall of Baghdad. He “stayed in that position for about 7 months and later continued on as an advisor when the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority named Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum, a member of the country’s Shiite Muslim majority, to the top post in November 2003.”
Welcome back? Like members of the IGC, he never really left.
Along with the BBC article, tex at AntiWar Blog has posted a link to the CPA’s Board of Supreme Audit. You can read the post and get the link here.