US plans to secure Iraqi oil fields

Originally published January 25, 2003

A senior US Defense Department official says military planners are conducting contingency planning on how to secure Iraqi oil fields from acts of sabotage by an unstable or vengeful Iraqi regime -- should conflict occur anytime in the future.

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