APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy articles from September 2005

APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy archives from September 2005

IRAQ - Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 6-O - The Arab Question.
September 19, 2005... The question whether or not Iraq was an Arab country was one of the most divisive issues in the process of drafting a permanent constitution. Since it was the Kurds who caused this issue, the Sunni Arabs of Iraq appealed to them for a solution....

IRAQ - The Federal Virus.
September 19, 2005... The two Kurdish leaders, acting on the advice of their foreign policy experts including Hoshyar Zebari, a key KDP man who is Iraq's foreign minister, had steered the complex bargaining game with the Shiite Arab majority and Sunni Arab minority...

U.S. - Syria Is Warned.(actions in Lebanon)
September 19, 2005... The Bush administration on Sept. 13 stepped up its rhetoric against Syria, accusing Damascus of aiding terrorist attacks in Iraq and warning that it faced the dangers of becoming "more isolated" if it was not more transparent about its actions...

IRAQ - Salafi War On Shiites & US U-Turn.
September 19, 2005... A suicide bomber on Sept. 16 blew himself up outside the al-Rasoul al-Atham mosque in Tuz Khormato, a city 200 km north of Baghdad, killing 13 Shiite worshippers, mostly followers of Sadr, with 28 wounded. That was another in a pattern of...

U.S. - Negative Polls.(public opinion of war in Iraq)
September 19, 2005... Now that Hurricane Katrina has caused so much damage to the south of the US, Americans are worried about the toll the war in Iraq is taking on them, both in the mounting casualties and the drain of resources needed at home. And although they...