APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy articles from November 2008

APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy archives from November 2008

Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 33 - Iraq With Obama & Saudi Perspective.
November 24, 2008... Under Barack Obama's Democratic administration which will take over on Jan. 20, 2009, the US will be the first world power to focus on the non-petroleum sector. It will spend $15 bn per annum for 10 years on renewables and energy efficiency....

Kurdish Intervention.
November 24, 2008... To secure more support from the Sunni Arabs, Iraq's Kurdish President Jalal Talabani on Nov. 21 held meetings with many Sunni Arab leaders at his Baghdad residence in the heavily fortified and US-protected Green Zone to persuade them that the...

The Saudi Perspective.
November 24, 2008... Saudi Arabia, from where US-led forces liberated Kuwait, has been quietly advising Iraq's Sunni Arab leaders to back the SOFA. From the Saudi standpoint, an early US withdrawal from Iraq would mean the country would fall under Iranian control...

Iran Split Over The SOFA; Syria Remains Strongly Opposed.(status of forces agreements)
November 24, 2008... The Shi'ite theocracy is divided over the US military presence in Iraq. Its supremacist wing which includes the IRGC is strongly against the SOFA, while pragmatists under Chief Justice Ayatullah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi are in favour of this...

Zawahiri Hits Obama.(Ayman al-Zawahiri and Barack Obama)
November 24, 2008... Using a racially derogatory term, al-Qaeda's No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri on Nov. 19 attacked Obama for his support for Israel. In the first al-Qaeda reaction to the Nov. 4 US presidential election, Zawahiri described Obama and other black Americans...