ARAB AFFAIRS - Jan. 24 - Syria Opens Iraq P/L.IHT IHT International Herald Tribune (newspaper) IHT Inheritance Tax (UK) IHT Institution of Highways & Transportation (UK) IHT Intermittent Hypoxic Training reports Syria has opened a pipeline for Iraqi crude oil which operates at 150,000 b/d and generates at least $2m/day for Baghdad. It reports analysts as saying the 835-km smuggling smuggling, illegal transport across state or national boundaries of goods or persons liable to customs or to prohibition. Smuggling has been carried on in nearly all nations and has occasionally been adopted as an instrument of national policy, as by Great Britain pipeline, from Iraq's northern Kirkuk oilfields to the Mediterranean port of Banias See Pentium M. , allows Baghdad to get much higher profits compared with illegal oil shipments by land through Turkey and Jordan and by sea via Iran, because the Syrian pipeline is more cost-efficient. A senior US official is quoted as saying: "This allows Saddam to expand his influence in the region... Poorer countries get hooked on lower oil prices at a time they need help economically". (By offering oil price discounts of up to 50%, Iraq is trying to lure lure the skin-covered object which runs on a monorail on a Greyhound racing track and which the dogs are schooled to chase. The lure must be kept 30 to 40 ft ahead of the leading dog so that the field is stretched out. neighbouring countries into secret pacts that will create long-term economic dependency. Syria's motive relates to the Arab-Israel peace process). |
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