Recently added articles from APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy:
- Focusing On The Non-Oil Sector - Part 28 - Iraq & Long-Term US Bases.
- Jun 30, 2008 ... The Iraqi and US governments are quietly negotiating a long-term pact allowing the American forces to stay in this country beyond 2008. Shi'ite MP Sami al-'Askari, an adviser to PM Nuri al-Maliki, says Iraq needs the US military presence to continue to help it end both the illegal militias ...
- Senate Democrats Try To block No-Bid TSAs.
- Jun 30, 2008 ... A group of US Democratic senators led by Charles Schumer of New York is appealing to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to block the award of TSAs without a competitive and transparent bidding process. If that appeal, which Schumer's office said it faxed in the form of a letter to the ...