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Summer 2003: Lobby Group Solicits Money from Oil Companies to Help Shape Iraq Oil Policy

Within months of the invasion of Iraq, the International Tax and Investment Centre, a Washington-based lobby group for the oil industry, solicits financial contributions from oil companies, including BP and Shell, for a special “Iraq project.” [Observer, 3/4/2007]