APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy articles from May 2005

APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy archives from May 2005

IRAQ - Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 6-K - The US Options.(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... There are three scenarios for the future of Iraq and the US preference is for the first and most hopes for. This is a gradual withering away of the Sunni insurgency as government police and military forces become more effective, the population...

IRAQ - Popular Sovereignty & What Follows.
May 16, 2005... The success of this military strategy, however, depends on a political gamble. As democratisation is the centerpiece of US policy, other goals - power sharing, regional stability, Iraqi territorial integrity - receive scant mention, in the hope...

IRAQ - Raids Near Syria & US Refocuses Strategy.
May 16, 2005... Salafi insurgents of Jordanian militant Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi's Qaeda, who control parts of the western Iraqi desert and include well trained Syrian volunteers, have fallen back to regroup as US Marines prepared an assault on a force of more...

IRAQ - Talabani's View.(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... During a state visit to Jordan, Iraq's Kurdish President Jalal Talabani told Reuters in Amman last week that Zarqawi was being funded by supporters of the strict Saudi-based Wahhabi sect and "some foreign states". He said he believed Zarqawi...

IRAQ - Al-Qaeda Recruiting In Mauritania.(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... Al-Qaeda has been pouring vast sums into mosques and Islamic schools in Mauritania, hoping to recruit insurgents and send them to the front lines of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mauritanian police commission spokesman Yahsdhou Ould Amar on May...

IRAQ - Ethnic Rifts Tearing At Al-Qaeda.
May 16, 2005... US and Pakistani intelligence agents are exploiting a growing rift between Arab members of Al-Qaeda and their Central Asian allies, a fissure tearing at the network of extremists as militants compete for scarce hideouts, weapons and financial...

IRAQ - Finishing Off Zarqawi.(Brief Article)
May 16, 2005... US counter-insurgency experts on May 14 were quoted as saying the key to ending Zarqawi's war in Iraq would be to catch Bin Laden. Zarqawi's men in Iraq are drawing on dozens of stockpiled, bomb-rigged cars and groups of foreign fighters...

IRAQ - Kuwait Jails Iraq Volunteers.
May 16, 2005... Saudi Arabia and other GCC states now pursuing all Salafi suspects in their territories, a Kuwaiti court on May 8 sentenced 20 suspected Salafi Islamists to three-year jail terms on charges of recruiting anti-US fighters for Iraq. One of the...

IRAQ - US Iraq Costs Surpass 1,600 Deaths & $300 Bn.
May 16, 2005... Total US troop deaths in the Iraq war on May 8 reached 1,601, according to a CNN count. In all, 1,780 coalition forces - not counting Iraqi forces - had been killed by then. The US death toll passed 1,000 in September 2004. According to reports...

IRAQ - Fraud Cases.
May 16, 2005... There will be many fraud scandals associated with the US involvement in Iraq. A criminal inquiry has been launched into a suspected case of embezzlement by US officials administering Iraqi construction money in the town of Hilla, where almost...

IRAQ - Japan & Australia Face Hostage Crises.
May 16, 2005... Two of Washington's staunchest allies in Iraq grappled with hostage crises on May 10 as Japan confirmed one of its citizens was missing and a deadline set by the captors of an Australian passed with no word on his fate. The...