APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy articles from January 2005

APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy archives from January 2005

IRAQ - Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 6G - The Elections.
January 17, 2005... Operation Iraqi Freedom, now focusing on elections for a 275-member parliament to draft a permanent constitution that should be put to a referendum in October, has proved to be the most difficult and most expensive "operation in oil diplomacy"...

IRAQ - Hot Pursuits In Syria; New Group Targets Wahhabis & Saddamists.
January 17, 2005... Newsweek on Jan. 9 said the US and the Iraqi government were considering using against insurgents in Iraq and Syria the "Salvador Option". This was applied in Salvador during the Reagan era - of "government funded or supported 'nationalist'...

IRAQ - A More Optimistic Perspective For Iraq.
January 17, 2005... The following are extracts from an article by Brett H. McGurk - a legal adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority and the US Embassy in Baghdad, who helped establish the legal framework for elections in Iraq - published on Jan. 11 by the...

IRAQ - Cash To Reporters.
January 17, 2005... After a meeting held by Allawi's campaign team in west Baghdad, reporters (mostly from the Arabic-language press) on Jan. 10 were invited upstairs where each was offered a "gift" of a $100 bill in an envelope. Many of the journalists accepted...

IRAQ - US Rethink.
January 17, 2005... With days to go before the polls, the Pentagon is rethinking its Iraq strategy, a reassessment which is having an impact on everything from the defence budget to the way soldiers are deployed to combat areas. The most visible sign of this was a...