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...that is only in the event of a real war and a cut-off of Iran's and the region's spigots. Right now, says Attiya, there is no actual shortage of fuel. "Why is the price of oil very high? I can confirm to you that there is no relation [to] demand and supply. We don't believe there is any shortage of supply in the whole world. I never saw a long queue in any gas station in the world. If you take the inventories, they are the highest in five years...
...Administration ever carries out a military strike on Iran, his Persian Gulf neighbor. "I hope and am confident that we will not see any war between America and Iran, and that all these negotiations will settle things amicably," Attiya said. But in the event of further conflict in the region, such as a threatened U.S. attack on Iran's nuclear installations, Attiya said, "I think there will be a big jump [in oil prices]." War would cause an actual drop in global oil supplies which, he explained, "will create a panic, a shortage in the market...
...were arrested last Thursday as they prepared to spirit 103 Darfur orphans away from the Chadian city of Abéché on a chartered plane. According to press comments by Zoe's Ark colleagues in France, the unauthorized attempt to hustle the children out of the region flouted administrative procedure to obtain permission. Such time-consuming steps, they say, clashed with the greater humanitarian urgency of getting the orphans to care and safety in France. But Chadian authorities swooped in as the plane prepared to depart, and arrested the Zoe's Ark workers, three French journalists accompanying them...
...troops to eastern Chad to protect Darfur refugees - an attitude he says may motivate what he considers a framing of the Zoe's Ark workers. Déby has denied that allegation, and promised the deployment will be carried out as planned. Despite that, international aid efforts in the region have been undermined by the caper - while Zoe's Ark efforts to tend to victims of Darfur's humanitarian crises are now clearly over for good. Meanwhile, other NGOs operating in the area report local populations have begun to regard aid workers with suspicion and hostility, fearful that such humanitarian...
...Sudan's troubled western region of Darfur is the world's largest humanitarian operation, with some 12,000 aid workers having been deployed here since rebels took up arms against the government more than four years ago. An estimated 200,000 people have died after Khartoum mobilized the Arab militias known as Janjaweed against villages believed to be supporting the uprising. Since then, the rebels and militias have fragmented and turned on one another. But the humanitarian agony continues for civilians prone to Janjaweed attack and for the 2.5 million people who have fled in fear for their lives...