Iraq: Maliki and US oil policynote

US Vice-President Joe Biden and some US Congressmen are said to be campaigning to impose a US oil policy in Iraq. The following 421-word report sheds light on the subject and tells what this US oil policy is about, notably at the levels of US oil companies, the Oil Ministry and oil fields in central and southern Iraq. It also tells how leading Shiite cleric Ali Sistani, PM Nouri Al-Maliki and Oil Minister Hussein Al-Shahristani reacted to this policy.