Is Baghdad bluffing?
OPEC needs to keep Iraq from destabilising the world’s oil market
COULD Saddam Hussein really throw the world's oil markets into turmoil? That is the burning question among energy pundits, given the latest scare tactics deployed by the moustachioed marauder of Iraq. In response to yet another round of sanctions by the United Nations, he has cut off his country's oil exports again.
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