Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 12:42:28 +0000 From: Brian Randell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: US ready to seize Gulf oil in 1973 X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From the BBC today (following release of thirty-year old files to the (UK) National Archives:
US ready to seize Gulf oil in 1973 by Paul Reynolds BBC News Online world affairs correspondent
Oilfields: Essential to world economy
The United States considered using force to seize oilfields in the Middle East during an oil embargo by Arab states in 1973, according to British government documents just made public.
The papers, released under the 30-year-rule, show that the British government took the threat so seriously that it drew up a detailed assessment of what the Americans might do.
It was thought that US airborne troops would seize the oil installations in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and might even ask the British to do the same in Abu Dhabi.
The episode shows how the security of oil supplies is always at the forefront of governments' planning
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3333995.stm
Happy New Year
Brian
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