WASHINGTON (AFX) – US special forces will be deployed rapidly to seize and protect Iraq’s largest oil fields if President George Bush decides to launch an attack to overthrow Saddam Hussein, according to defence and industry sources. “They would basically go in to stop Iraq’s military from torching the fields,” said a Washington-based Middle East…
IRAQ: US elite troops to seize oil fields in the event of conflict
Posted on February 11, 2003 by EnergyAsia