US facilitated illicit oil shipments from Iraq:Senate Democrat report

摘要

In a scathing new report on the role of the US government in illicit oil shipments by Iraq under the UN's oil-for-food program,Senate Democrats May 16 charged the government facilitated the shipment of some 7.7-mil bbl of crude from Iraq's Khor al-Amaya oil port outside the UN program,possibly escorting some of the seven oil tankers through the Persian Gulf in direct contravention of the policing effort meant to thwart such shipments.