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A lobbyist for Shell at the head of the Syrian National Coalition

The many faces of Sheikh Ahmad Moaz Al-Khatib

by Thierry Meyssan

The many faces of Sheikh Ahmad Moaz Al-Khatib

Damascus (Syria) | 23 November 2012
Completely unkown to the international public only a week ago, Sheikh Moaz al-Khatib has been catapulted to the presidency of the Syrian National Coalition, which represents pro-Western opposition in the Damascus government. Portrayed by an intense public relations campaign as a highly moral personality with no partisan or economic attachments, he is in truth a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and an executive of the Shell oil company.

Senate passes bill to drain Iran gas pumps

Senate passes bill to drain Iran gas pumps

30 July 2009
In an attempt to force Tehran to halt its enrichment program, the US Senate has voted to put pressure on companies selling gasoline to Iran.
A bill approved on Thursday by the Senate says companies that continue to sell gasoline and other refined oil products to Iran will be banned from receiving Energy Department contracts to deliver crude to the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Reuters reported.
The measure must now be reconciled with a similar bill passed by the House of (...)

Royal Dutch Shell Forced to Settle Human Rights Case Out of Court

Royal Dutch Shell Forced to Settle Human Rights Case Out of Court

9 June 2009
Damning Evidence Reveals Shell’s Complicity In Crimes Against Humanity;
Landmark Case Resolved in Favor of Ogoni Plaintiffs After 14 Year Legal Battle.
New York– After legal battles lasting nearly fourteen years, oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has been forced to pay a $15.5 million out-of-court settlement. Plaintiffs from the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta have successfully held Shell accountable for complicity in human rights atrocities committed against the Ogoni people in the 1990s, (...)

Shell in court over alleged role in Nigeria executions

Shell in court over alleged role in Nigeria executions

6 April 2009
Chief Sunday Inengite remembers the day the foreigners who had come to his village in Nigeria’s Niger Delta struck oil. "They made us be happy and clap like fools, dance as if we were trained monkeys," he says. Years later, the 74-year-old now looks back on his youthful enthusiasm with sour regret. Nigeria has become one of Africa’s biggest oil producers, but the people of Oloibiri complain they have not seen much of the money made in the 52 years of oil production. "It smacks of wickedness, (...)

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The many faces of Sheikh Ahmad Moaz Al-Khatib
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Shell in court over alleged role in Nigeria executions

Royal Dutch Shell Forced to Settle Human Rights Case Out of Court

Senate passes bill to drain Iran gas pumps