Black-Market Weapon Prices Surge in Iraq Chaos
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As gun prices soar in Iraq, army and police weapons from Iraqi state armories are, in turn, showing up on the black market.
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Oil prices surged to a new high of $47 a  barrel on Wednesday on evidence from major economies that  energy costs are not substantially slowing the economic growth  that fuels oil demand. Fresh threats by rebel militia in Iraq  against oil facilities helped underpin price gains.
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Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman see profits surge, helped by orders for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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BAGHDAD -- Private security companies, funded by billions of dollars in US military and State Department contracts, are fighting insurgents on a widening scale in Iraq, enduring daily attacks, returning fire, and taking hundreds of casualties that have been underreported and sometimes concealed, according to US and Iraqi officials and company representatives.
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Oil prices hit fresh highs on Friday,  lifting U.S. crude above $49 a barrel, driven by escalating  violence in Iraq and unabated fuel demand growth from China and  India.
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Deadly and debilitating chlorine gas has been added the arsenal of weapons fueling the explosive insurgency in Iraq with chemical attacks leaving at least 12 dead and more than 200 hospitalized in the past week.
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Global oil prices raced to fresh  highs on Friday with U.S. crude approaching $49, driven by  escalating violence in Iraq and unabated demand growth from  China and India.
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The initial U.S. Embassy report on a Sept. 16 shooting incident in Baghdad involving Blackwater USA, a private security firm, depicts an afternoon of mayhem that included a car bomb, a shootout in a crowded traffic circle and an armed standoff between Blackwater guards and Iraqi security forces...
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Oil prices surged to a new high above $47 a barrel spurred by concern for the safety of oil facilities in Iraq.
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Global oil prices have rallied to fresh highs, with US crude approaching $49, driven by escalating violence in Iraq and unabated demand growth from China and India.
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Oil prices climbed nearly a dollar on  Monday, moving above $46 a barrel on escalating sabotage at  Iraqi oil facilities and the risk that a U.S. cold spell would  strain thin winter fuel supplies.
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World crude prices rise amid fears that oil supplies from the Gulf of Mexico could be disrupted by Hurricane Ivan, and as saboteurs strike a pipeline in Iraq.
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By BRIAN WITTE BALTIMORE - On paper, the U.S. Army was supposed to be getting &quot;a ball bearing assortment&quot; for $1,409. It was bad enough that the order form marked up the price from $682.50.
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The price oil charged to a new high above $47 a barrel Wednesday amid nagging concerns about instability in Iraq, the uncertain fate of Russian petroleum giant Yukos and the world&#39;s limited supply cushion.
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Crude oil prices passed $49 per barrel today, striking fresh record levels amid heightened concern about supplies in Iraq.
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Iraqi National Guard members arrests petrol black marketeers in Baghdad Monday Nov. 29, 2004. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed). BAGHDAD, Iraq Nov 30, 2004 - A suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives
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Nearly 150 people have been slain in 3 days as militants try to derail plan for security force. â¢ Oil exports: Saboteurs wrecked a recently repaired pipeline junction in Kirkuk, Iraq, on Tuesday and the fire set off a cascade of power blackouts.