Hundreds of Iraqis protest draft oil law

About 300 oil industry workers gathered in Iraq’s main oil port of Basra today to protest a draft law that they said would allow foreigners to pillage the country’s wealth.

‘To compensate for the military and political failure of the US administration in Iraq, this administration is trying to control the country’s wealth,’ the organisers said in a statement distributed to reporters.

‘If this is endorsed by the parliament it would abolish sovereignty and hand over the wealth of this generation and the generations to come as a gift to the occupier,’ the statement said.

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