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Article: SYRIA - Beirut Doubts About Syrian Intent.
- Article from:
- APS Review Gas Market Trends
- Article date:
- March 17, 2008
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In Beirut, however, politicians and energy experts doubt that the Ba'thist regime of Syria will make things smooth for Lebanon to receive Egyptian gas through its territory.
The Syrian regime has a history of blocking operations of pipelines passing through its territory. In the 1970s and in the early 1980s, it cut the flow of Iraqi crude oils by pipeline from Kirkuk to the Syria's Mediterranean terminal of Banias and a branch going to an oil refinery in Tripoli. That was the result of political difference between Syria and Iraq, then run by rival Ba'thist regimes.
Before he died in June 2000, then Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and his Iraqi ...