APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy articles from August 2005

APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy archives from August 2005

IRAQ - Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 6-N - Towards Civil War.
August 1, 2005... Six months after Iraq's historic Jan. 30 election, the country is on the verge of another political breakthrough, the successful writing of a new constitution. Yet there are growing worries that the political momentum is doing nothing to calm a...

IRAQ - The Salafi Bet.(insurgency)
August 1, 2005... The Sunni Arabs, about 20% of Iraq's population, make up the core of the insurgency. But the most deadly fighters are suicide bombers belonging Salafi groups, who are mostly non-Iraqi volunteers led by the Jordanian/Palestinian terrorist Abu...

IRAQ - Kurdistan Issue.
August 1, 2005... Kurds in the constitutional panel, fearing they might be sidelined during inter-Arab haggling over federalism, have raised the stakes in their talks with Shiite and Sunni Arab representatives about the future structure of the Iraqi state. They...

IRAQ - Low Quality Of Iraqi Police Recruits.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... The vetting of recruits to Iraq's police force is so poor that many who join up have criminal records, are barely literate, or are members of the insurgency, a new US government report concludes. Compiled by Pentagon and State Department...

IRAQ - The Economy.
August 1, 2005... Recent foreign aid and trade accords, however, provide hope that Iraq's economy, plagued by years of sanctions and violence, is on the road to recovery. GDP growth was estimated at 54% in 2004. This year GDP growth is forecast at 34%. Iraq's...