Just after US invasion of Afghanistan, the "London Observer" and "The Guardian" reported plans to invade Iraq and seize its oil reserves around Basra and use the proceeds to finance Iraqi oppositions in the south and the north. Later the US intelligence community denied these claims as incredible and that they have no plan to attack Iraq. On October 14, 2001, The Guardian reported:""The group, which some in the State Department and on Capitol Hill refer to as the 'Wolfowitz cabal', after Deputy Secretary of Defence Paul Wolfowitz, was yesterday laying the ground for a strategy that envisions the use of air support and the occupation of southern Iraq with American ground troops to install an Iraqi opposition group based in London at the helm of a new government. Under the plan, American troops would also seize the oil fields around Basra, in south-eastern Iraq, and sell the oil to finance the Iraqi opposition in the south and the Kurds in the north, one senior official said.""