{"id":321,"date":"2003-06-10T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-10T06:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=321"},"modified":"2003-06-10T06:09:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-10T06:09:00","slug":"321","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b> NO BLOOD FOR OIL ?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\">Instapundit<\/a> links to an article on the misdoings of the French oil giant <a href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/interna.asp?idnews=18662\">TotalFinaElf in Africa<\/a>. This is the company that was also currying favor with Saddam and had signed &#8220;precontracts &#8221; to gain concessions in the Iraqi oil fields at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eia.doe.gov\/emeu\/cabs\/iraq.html\">Majnoon and Nahar Umar <\/a>despite UN sanctions. It seems that in it&#8217;s Elf Acquitaine incarnation ( the corporation has gone through a number of buy-outs,reorganizations and changes of name) it was controlled by French intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NO BLOOD FOR OIL ? Instapundit links to an article on the misdoings of the French oil giant TotalFinaElf in Africa. This is the company that was also currying favor with Saddam and had signed &#8220;precontracts &#8221; to gain concessions in the Iraqi oil fields at Majnoon and Nahar Umar despite UN sanctions. It seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}