APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy articles from November 2005

APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy archives from November 2005

IRAQ - Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 6-Q - The Neo-Salafi Threat.
November 21, 2005... Many anti-US Muslims have come to believe that oil - whether conventional or synthetic - is a curse affecting any power trying to control other peoples through it. This seems to be the belief of many young Muslims who admire those Neo-Salafi...

IRAQ - The Izzat Ibrahim Al-Douri Factor.
November 21, 2005... The No. 2 man in Saddam's fallen Ba'thist regime, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, is either dead as one Website message has said, or still alive as another claims. In any event, the Douri factor has become important to the Neo-Salafi effort to...

IRAQ - Iraq-Afghan Inter-Action & Iranian Role.
November 21, 2005... For more than a year inter-action between the Iraqi insurgency and the Taliban-led Afghan rebellion has been mutually beneficial. "Asia Times Online has reported how Taliban commander Mehmood Haq Yar went to Iraq to learn the techniques of...

IRAQ - The Export To Jordan.
November 21, 2005... Jordan is one of the staunchest allies of the US in the region, and it is Baghdad closest Arab ally, having done more than any other Arab state to help facilitate Iraq's transition in the post-Saddam era. This and the global "war on terror"...

IRAQ - The Cairo Talks.(Brief Article)
November 21, 2005... Iraqi politicians on Nov. 19 convened at the Arab League's Nileside HQ for three days of meetings paving the way for a larger "national reconciliation" conference at an un-specified location early next year. President Talabani and PM Ja'fari...

IRAQ - Iraqi Reconstruction Moving Forward.(Brief Article)
November 21, 2005... The US official in charge of reconstruction in Iraq on Nov. 13 went on the defensive, saying American-financed projects had been moving forward. He said US officials had not publicised them to avoid putting Iraqi workers at risk. In his...

IRAQ - Kurds Seek Investors.
November 21, 2005... While senior Iraqi politicians are knocking on the doors of the Bush administration seeking pledges of support for whatever government might emerge from next month's parliamentary elections, others have gone to Washington with a longer-term...

IRAQ - Corruption.
November 21, 2005... Since the overthrow of Saddam's Ba'thist dictatorship on April 9, 2003, the combined impact of the insurgency and the rampant corruption inherent in the Iraqi system has won few friends among US companies or the US officials spending over $30...

IRAQ - Shi'ites Torturing Sunnis.
November 21, 2005... The discovery of malnourished detainees, many bearing signs of torture, in an underground bunker at the Iraqi Interior Ministry came after a US soldier investigated an Iraqi family's complaints that one of its sons was being secretly held. When...

IRAQ - US Will Examine Iraqi-Run Prisons.
November 21, 2005... US investigators will work with an Iraqi commission to widen the inquiry into prisoner torture and abuse by scrutinising all Iraqi-run detention centres across the country. Announcement of this on Nov. 17 reflected the gravity with which the...