APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy articles from October 2008

APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy archives from October 2008

Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 32 - Iraq-US Deal Gets New Obstacles.
October 27, 2008... In the run up to the Nov. 4 US presidential election, the Bush administration is applying intense pressure on the government of Shi'ite PM Nuri al-Maliki to sign a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) to govern the conduct of US forces in Iraq for...

From Beirut To 9/11.
October 27, 2008... This was the title of an article by Robert C. McFarlane, who was the US national security adviser from 1983 to 1985, published on Oct. 23. He ended it with this: "Since 9/11 we have learned a lot about the threat from radical Islam and how to...

Back To McFarlane's Piece.
October 27, 2008... The former top Republican official on Oct. 23 wrote (with underlining and some name spelling by APS): "In the summer of 1983, I became President Ronald Reagan's special representative to the Middle East, with the mission of restoring a measure...

Bad Scenarios.
October 27, 2008... Baghdad and other Arab capitals during the week were buzzed with a variety of bad scenarios for Iraq. One was a military coup. Another was an uprising by the awakening councils (AC), made up mainly by tribal Sunni Arabs and partly by tribal...

Iraqi Nationalism Vs Iran.
October 27, 2008... With all the influences it has in Iraq, the one thing Iran's theocracy fears most is the country's Arab nationalism, most notably among Iraq's Shi'ite Arabs as well as the Sunni Arabs. It had become obvious to Tehran since the first weeks of...

Iran Training Shi'ites?
October 27, 2008... The US media on Oct. 19-20 gave top play to documents showing that Iran's IRGC was training Shi'ite Arabs, including Lebanese Hizbullah members, to fight US forces as well as pro-US Shi'ites and Sunnis in Iraq. Compiled by the Combating...