BakerInstitute,James

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The James Baker Institute at Rice University funded a study called "Strategic Energy Policy: Challenges for the 21st Century." The author of that report is Matt Simmons, president of Simmons and Company Investment Bankers and member of the Board of Directors of Kerr-McGee (US/Western Sahara) . It helps the cause of Kerr-McGee that Baker's former spokesperson at the Departments of State and Treasury and close personal friend, Margaret Tutwiler, serves as the U.S. ambassador to Morocco. One of Tutwilers best friends is former White House Communications Director and close Bush confidant Karen Hughes (->). The Western Saharans are claiming the deals between Morocco and TotalFinaElf and Kerr-McGee are in violation of international law and previous UN resolutions. The Sahrawi President, Mohammed Abdelaziz, condemned the oil deals as an illegal "provocation." The Sahrawi cause is supported by a number of NGOs, former French First Lady Danielle Mitterand, and East Timor's leadership, which knows all too well about being held hostage by oil interests and brutal occupying dictatorships allied with the West. But the oil companies and the Baker-Bush team still holds the trump card. If the Sahrawis, out of desperation, break the cease-fire and go to war with Morocco, the anti-terrorism measures undertaken by the United States may seal their fate. Source: http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Madsen011603/madsen011603.html

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