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Attacks on Iraq Oil Industry Aid Vast Smuggling Scheme

Date: June 4, 2006

Authors: James Glanz and Robert F. Worth

QUOTE: Once thought to be only a tool for insurgents to undermine the government, the pipeline attacks have evolved into a lucrative moneymaking scheme for insurgents and enterprising criminal gangs...As a result, as much as 30 percent of imported gasoline is promptly stolen and resold abroad by smugglers...

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• Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS)
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• New York Times Company
• Open Society Institute (OSI)

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Businesses & Organizations
  • Industry-Specific Issues
    • Energy/Natural Resources

• Government & Politics / History
  • Government (General)
    • Government scandals/corruption

• Law & Justice
  • Criminal Law
    • Organized Crime/Racketeering
    • Theft / Stolen Property

• Middle East
  • Iraq

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