WASHINGTON, D.C.
Cheney task force eyed Iraq oil industry
Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force appeared to have some interest in early 2001 in Iraq's oil industry, including which foreign companies were pursuing business there, according to documents released Friday by a private watchdog group.
Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group, obtained a batch of task-force-related Commerce Department papers that included a detailed map of Iraq's oil fields, terminals and pipelines as well as a list titled ``Foreign suitors of Iraqi oil field contracts.''
The papers included similar data on Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and a list of oil- and gas-development projects in those two countries.
