VOL. XLVI

No 7

17-February-2003

IRAQ

US Neoconservatives Favor Privatization Of Entire Iraqi Oil Sector

Neoconservatives inside and outside the Bush administration favor the privatization of the entire Iraqi oil sector after a regime change in Baghdad, according to an article in the US magazine New Republic of 20 January by senior editor John B Judis. The aim of the neoconservatives, Mr Judis says, is to bypass the Iraqi National Oil Company in favor of a free-market approach to oil. The author...