Smuggling organization in Iraq makes about $5 million from smuggling oil

Posted on April 26, 2008
Filed Under Middle East, environmental goods |

According to a report in The Guardian, a smuggling organization in Iraq is estimated to make about $5 million a week from smuggling oil.

Source: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, “Oiling the wheels of war: Smuggling becomes the real economy of Iraq,” Guardian, June 9, 2007.

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