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[[Robert Ebel]], a "former Energy and [[CIA]] oil analyst, now a fellow at the [[Center for Strategic and International Studies]]," told Palast that the "sell-off was given the green light in a secret meeting in London headed by [[Ahmed Chalabi]] shortly after the US entered Baghdad." Ebel said that "he flew to the London meeting at the request of the State Department."
Aljibury, Palast writes, "claims that plans to sell off Iraq's oil [were] pushed by the US-installed [[Iraqi Governing Council]] in 2003, [which, in turn,] helped instigate the [[Iraqi insurgency|insurgency]] and attacks on US and British [[Operation Iraqi Freedom|occupying forces]]."
According to Aljibury, "Insurgents used this, saying, 'Look, you're losing your country, you're losing your resources to a bunch of wealthy billionaires who want to take you over and make your life miserable'." This could be seen in "an increase in the bombing of oil facilities, pipelines, built on the premise that privatisation is coming," he said.