Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 18

2-May-2005

IRAQ

Oil Disruption At Core Of Armed Resistance, Says Iraqi Baʹth Party

Disruption of Iraqs oil sector will remain at the core of the Iraqi armed resistance efforts to dislodge occupying forces, according to a statement issued by the Baʹth Party and published in London-based al-Quds al-Arabi on 23 April. Oil the main objective in the US Iraq, regional and international strategy will be as it has always been in the Ba'th plan and as it is at...