APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy articles from July 2007

APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy archives from July 2007

IRAQ - Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 17 - Iraqi Complications & 'Saddam Curse'.
July 30, 2007... Spending almost $1 trillion in efforts on all fronts - including cash, with the war bill now exceeding $2 bn/week - and having lost so many American lives, the Iraq project seems to be the costliest thing Washington has undertaken since World...

IRAQ - Kurds Offer Oil 40 E&P Blocks.
July 30, 2007... The KRG is not waiting for Baghdad to pass the petroleum law, which it says could take several months. Instead, it is preparing to offer 40 new oil E&P blocks in the north on the basis of a PSA model it has already applied for several blocks in...

IRAQ - The Makhmour Controversy.(to join the Kurdistan Regional Government region)
July 30, 2007... The town of Makhmour lies amid the dust devils, wheat-fields and oil pipelines of the northern Iraqi plains, just east of the Green Line which divides the autonomous KRG area from the rest of Iraq. For decades, this predominantly Kurdish town...

IRAQ - Law Allows Private Refining.
July 30, 2007... Parliament on July 24 approved a law allowing private oil refineries to be set up in Iraq. This was a step towards relinquishing state control in the refining sector and, when poverty is alleviated, moving Iraqi consumers from subsidised to...

IRAQ - Denmark Evacuates Iraqi Employees & Relatives.
July 30, 2007... Denmark has secretly airlifted about 200 Iraqi employees and their relatives out of Iraq to prevent them from being killed after 470 Danish ground troops withdraw in August. Interpreters and other employees of foreign forces are prime targets...

IRAQ - Violence In The South.(airmen killed in attack)(Brief article)
July 30, 2007... Three British airmen were killed on July 19 by rocket or mortar fire into their airport base in Basra. The deaths brought to 162 the total number of British service members killed since the invasion, with 33 in 2007 alone, the deadliest year...

IRAQ - Sunnis Threaten To Quit Govt.
July 30, 2007... The IAF on July 25 threatened to quit its membership of the government, in an indication of a widening Sunni-Shi'ite rift complicating efforts to secure national reconciliation. The IAF said in a press conference it would pull out of the...

IRAQ - Sunni Imams Harbour Neo-Salafis.
July 30, 2007... US forces on July 21 stormed the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) HQ in Baghdad and arrested 18 armed Neo-Salafi militants of al-Qaeda. The AMS is the main Sunni religious group which claims control over 3,000 Sunni mosques throughout Iraq....

IRAQ - Iraqi Security Forces Need Years Of Training.
July 30, 2007... Maj Gen. Walter Gaskin, leading American troops in Anbar Province, on July 20 said Iraq's security system will need years of mentoring and support from US forces. He warned against a US withdrawal before local forces can operate independently....

IRAQ - US-Iran Talks.
July 30, 2007... Bilateral talks in Baghdad were resumed on July 24 by US Ambassador Ryan Crocker and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Kazemi Qomi. They agreed to set up a three-state security committee with Iraq despite the fact that Crocker accused Tehran of...

IRAQ - Tehran Theocrat Says Confessions Prove US Plot.
July 30, 2007... A senior Iranian theocrat, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, on July 19 said televised "confessions" of two detained American-Iranians proved a US-backed plot to carry out a "velvet revolution" using intellectuals to topple Iran's Shi'ite theocracy....

IRAQ - The Difference Between Pahlavi Savak & Theocracy's Intelligence.
July 30, 2007... More than 28 years after Khomeini's Islamic revolution, the Shi'ite theocracy has created an intelligence community markedly different from the pre-revolutionary intelligence community of the Pahlavi monarchy. Tehran's leading intelligence...

IRAQ - CIA Penetration Of Iran & Failures.(Central Intelligence Agency )
July 30, 2007... Abedin says the theocracy has from the start been a major target for US intelligence-gathering and sabotage operations and notes that "the sheer breadth and depth of US intelligence activities in Islamic Iran are rarely acknowledged", adding:...