VOL. XLIV

No 42

15 October 2001

US Sanctions After 11September

By Robert Copaken

The following is the text of thespeech by Robert Copaken at the conference on Implications of Sanctions forthe Oil, Gas and Mining Industry, sponsored by the Global Business Network andheld in London on 2 October. Mr Copaken is a Scholar-in-Residence at the MiddleEast Institute. He was formerly senior Middle East Energy Analyst in the Officeof International Affairs at the US Department of Energy.

First of all, I want...