from email, 13 January 2008: "For the Iraqi people, the ongoing war and occupation have led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, relentless insecurity and crippling poverty. But for foreign oil companies, the desperate situation in Iraq is an opportunity to make massive profits at the expense of the Iraqi people ... In February 2007 the Iraqi cabinet approved an oil law which, if passed into law, would allow the likes of Shell, BP and Exxon to take over control of most of Iraq's oil reserves, depriving ordinary Iraqis of scores of billions of dollars ... One year on, despite five US administration- and IMF- imposed deadlines, the law is still being contested at every level of Iraqi society ... We need to keep the pressure up here in the UK and support the Iraqi people in their ongoing fight..." more