By Ziad Ghosn
ALAKHBAR - Wednesday, June 25, 2014
With the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and al-Nusra
Front in control of several oil fields in Syria, the two radical
Islamist groups entered the “oil exporters’ club,” with Western
enablement. This, in addition to the closely anticipated hydrocarbon
discoveries in Syria’s territorial waters and other pertinent
developments, has made the oil issue a strong factor in the Syrian
crisis, albeit one that has so far remained behind the scenes.
Damascus: Professor Adnan Mustafa, a Syrian physicist, banks
on his years of experience as minister of oil and mineral resources in
the 1970s, and his tenure as assistant secretary-general of the
Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries OAPEC, to settle a
crucial question related to the role of energy in the regional and
international conflict currently raging over Syria. Mustafa, speaking to
Al-Akhbar, stressed that Syria’s limited oil and gas output did
not ultimately affect the perspective of what he calls the petroleum
empire of darkness, which he said eventually decided that Syria was “a
major obstacle to its plan for a new world order, and therefore, had to
be removed from the new Middle East.”
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