The Christian Science Monitor, April 4th, 2002
Byline: Ron Scherer Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
NEW YORK -- Could the world be about to face a real-life sequel: Oil Embargo II?
The prospect of oil prices being driven by the deployment of Israeli tanks and the future of Yasser Arafat may be moving closer. In a development reminiscent of 1973, when Arab nations embargoed oil to the US and gas lines suddenly snaked for blocks throughout the nation, Iraq and Iran are trying to rally Gulf support for again using the denial of oil as a geopolitical weapon against the US and other industrialized nations.
The effect of a new ...
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