Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 5

31-January-2005

Iraq: A Year Of Living Precariously

The following article was published by Washington-based PFC Energys Market Intelligence Service on 19 January and is republished with permission.

Neither Washington nor Baghdad sees any value in postponing the 30 January elections. Therefore, despite rising violence, the vote will go ahead as planned, even if there is a sizeable boycott by Sunnis and nationalists. In the absence of alternative signs of...