MB Civic

Dennett, a lawyer who specializes in FOIA requests and whose father was OSS/CIA during WWII and its aftermath, gives a history lesson in Counterpunch ..

Ever since the first WikiLeaks “dump” of classified documents began .. I’ve been looking for official documents that confirm .. that the war on terror is really just the latest stage in the Great Game for Oil … one of the biggest diplomatic embarrassments of the 20th Century occurred when Russian Bolsheviks took power in the midst of World War I and promptly released to the press secret documents that revealed the true intentions of the Czar’s erstwhile European allies in the Middle East.The documents .. reveal how the French and the British agreed to divvy up the former Ottoman Empire into British and French spheres of influence — despite promises of independence to the Arabs for helping to drive out the Turks. The agreement gave [them] control of the territory and pipeline routes connecting the oil of Iraq to two key Mediterranean terminal points. The British would control the land bridge and pipeline route connecting Iraqi with Haifa, Palestine (now Israel). The French would control the pipeline route connecting Iraq with Tripoli, in Syria, (now Lebanon)

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