APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy articles from October 2005

APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy archives from October 2005

IRAQ - Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 6-P - The Constitution.
October 10, 2005... There is now a wish - rather than a bet - among Iraq's main sectarian communities that the Sunni Arab minority will not be able to defeat the proposed constitution in an Oct. 15 referendum and would thus fail to prevent the Shi'ite Arab...

IRAQ - Moves On Sunni Arab Veto.
October 10, 2005... At the National Assembly, Shi'ite Arab and Kurdish leaders on Oct. 2 quietly adopted new rules to make it virtually impossible for the constitution to fail in the referendum, prompting Sunnis and a range of independent political figures to...

IRAQ - Iran Meddling.
October 10, 2005... The UK believes Iran's Revolutionary Guard is supplying explosives technology which is killing British soldiers in Iraq, including eight who died in separate bombings over the summer. The Associated Press on Oct. 5 quoted a senior UK official...

IRAQ - Kurdish-Shi'ite Split Over Kirkuk Frozen.
October 10, 2005... At the London news conference President Talabani on Oct. 6 said the Kurdish dispute over the oil-rich zone of Kirkuk with Shi'ite Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Ja'fari and a Kurdish call for the latter's resignation have been "resolved". But APS...

IRAQ - Attack On Shi'te Oil Minister.(Ibrahim Bahr ul-Uloum)(Brief Article)
October 10, 2005... Oil Minister Ibrahim Bahr ul-Uloum, son of a prominent Shi'ite Arab ayatollah, on Oct. 3 survived an assassination attempt when a roadside bomb blasted his motorcade, the latest attack on the energy industry which is vital to rebuilding the...

IRAQ - Shi'tes Hit Saudis; Ja'fari's weakness Seen.
October 10, 2005... The government was in disarray again on Oct. 3 as Shi'ite Interior Minister Bayan Jabr lashed out at Saudi Arabia for having accused Iran of meddling in Iraqi affairs. Jabr chose to make his comments while Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari was in...

IRAQ - Why Failure On Oct. 15 Might Be Good.
October 10, 2005... Brown and Alterman are not hopeful of the immediate future. But should the draft be turned down by the negative votes of the Sunnis in spite of the praise from the European Union, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Blair, new avenues could...

IRAQ - Chaos Scenario.
October 10, 2005... Top US officials have been confident the draft will be voted for on Oct. 15. In testimony before Congress on Sept. 29, Army Gen. Casey said the most recent analysis of intelligence from across the country backed the Bush team's optimistic...

IRAQ - UK View Of US-Led Blunder.
October 10, 2005... Malcolm Rifkind, a former UK foreign secretary seeking to lead the Conservative Party, on Oct. 4 said the invasion was the worst foreign policy blunder since the 1956 Suez crisis. One of five contenders to lead the opposition party, Rifkind...

IRAQ - Assad In Deep Trouble.(Bashar Assad )
October 10, 2005... DEBKAfile on Oct. 4 published this report: "How to save Syrian President Bashar Assad and his regime from toppling - or rather how to save him from himself? This was the main topic exercising Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Saudi King...

IRAQ - The Proposed Arab Cover.
October 10, 2005... Saudi Arabia is spearheading an Arab plan for Iraq. An Arab League's ministerial committee on Iraq met in Jeddah on Oct. 2. One of the main topics, said to have been given by Washington as the top priority, was eliminating the neo-Salafi...

IRAQ - What The Constitution Calls For.
October 10, 2005... The key provision in the draft constitution, Article 2, says no law may contradict "the undisputed rules of Islam". This rule, Edward N. Luttwak, a senior fellow at the Washington Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), wrote in...