APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy articles from October 2004

APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy archives from October 2004

IRAQ - Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 6D - Security First.
October 4, 2004... Nothing good can be expected of Iraq, unless its security problems have been resolved and the power struggle between the Pentagon and the State Department under President George W. Bush ends. A new survey conducted for the US government shows...

IRAQ - The Coming US Offensive.(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... The CentCom chief who heads the US forces in the Middle East and other countries, Gen. John Abizaid, on Sept. 26 warned on NBC: "We're going to have to fight our way all the way through elections (in Iraq scheduled for Jan. 31, 2005) and...

IRAQ - Int'l Iraq Conference.
October 4, 2004... Powell confirmed on Sept. 26 that he planned a conference - proposed by Allawi - to enlist the help of neighbours like Iran and Syria. The aim is to block any cross-border attempts, confer greater legitimacy on the election process and...

IRAQ - Towards Elections.
October 4, 2004... US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has warned that elections may not be held at all in 20-25% of Iraq because of continuing violence, thus contradicting views expressed in the State Department. At the same time, however, Iraq's Shiite...

IRAQ - Oil-Rich Southern Areas Push For Autonomy.
October 4, 2004... Members of the municipal council of Basra, Iraq's second largest city, have been holding talks with officials from councils in the neighbouring provinces of Missan and Dhiqar on establishing a federal region in the south, following the example...

IRAQ - Publicity Campaign.(Brief Article)
October 4, 2004... Advertisements explaining that elections will be held and calling on voters to exercise their rights have been rolled out. They will be followed by instructions on how the vote will take place. Scepticism over post-war Iraq's politics is...

IRAQ - Shift To Short-Term Security Needs.
October 4, 2004... The US is focusing on short-term projects at the expense of longer-term efforts. Anthony Cordesman, a senior military analyst at the Washington Centre for Strategic and International Studies, in a report on Iraqi reconstruction, concludes: "The...

IRAQ - Saddam's Nuclear Ambition.
October 4, 2004... "Saddam, the bomb and me" was the headline of an article by Iraqi scientist, Mahdi Obeidi, published on Sept. 28 by the New York Times (NYT). Obeidi is the author of "The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind". Kurt...