LA Times-front page article on E-version re:Immunity for Iraq Oil Dealings

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Thusday's e-version of the LA times had a story "Immunity for Iraqi Oil Dealings Raises Alarm" Since, I cannot find the story anywhere. It does not appear in the archives. Not on google. Did anyone else see this story???? Wishful dreaming? Help. The story should be required reading for those who care to expose these rats for what they are.

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1. Can't find the LA Times article but

Is this in the right direction? If it is, the operative words are 'Executive Order 13303' which has Cheney's fingerprints all over it.

Operation Oil Immunity
by Steve Kretzmann and Jim Vallette
July 28, 2003

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Executive Order 13303 decrees that "any attachment, judgment, decree, lien, execution, garnishment, or other judicial process is prohibited, and shall be deemed null and void," with respect to the Development Fund for Iraq and "all Iraqi petroleum and petroleum products, and interests therein."

In other words, if ExxonMobil or ChevronTexaco touch Iraqi oil, it will be immune from legal proceedings in the United States. Anything that could go, and elsewhere has gone, awry with U.S. corporate oil operations will be immune to judgment: a massive tanker accident; an explosion at an oil refinery; the employment of slave labor to build a pipeline; murder of locals by corporate security; the release of billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The president, with a stroke of the pen, signed away the rights of Saddam's victims, creditors and of the next true Iraqi government to be compensated through legal action. Bush's order unilaterally declares Iraqi oil to be the unassailable province of U.S. corporations.
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Operation Oil Immunity