Newly released documents reveal that Vice President Dick Cheney?s energy task force was examining Iraq’s oil assets two years before the invasion of Iraq.

The London Telegraph reports the 16 pages from March 2001, show maps of Iraq oil fields, pipelines, refineries and terminals. A document titled Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts lists which countries were keen to do business with Iraq.

The documents were released by the government to Judicial Watch which had filed a Freedom for Information Act as part of the conservative organization?s study into the links between the Bush administration and Enron.

For two years the White House had attempted to prevent the documents from being released.