Galbraith denies wrongdoing alleged in KRG oil deal flap

Former U.S. Ambassador and prominent proponent of decentralized Iraq says political opinions shaped before KRG oil involvement.

Former U.S. official Peter Galbraith, who unearthed Saddam Hussein’s massacre of the Kurds in the 1980s and promoted a partition of the country after the 2003 invasion, denied his contract in Iraq’s oil sector was a conflict of interest.

In June 2004, a few months after Galbraith advised Iraq’s Kurdish leadership on how to secure autonomy over its land – and oil – from Baghdad’s long-time grip, his newly formed company signed up as a player in an oil contract in the Kurdish region...

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