Potential buyers can’t get at Iraqi crude oil

First week of April: oil still pumping, but no officials to sign for sales

Bruce Stanley

Associated Press Business Writer

Despite U.S. air attacks around prized oil fields in northern Iraq, crude from the area still flows by pipeline into Turkey. The oil could pay for millions of dollars in emergency food and medicine for Iraq, but industry sources and U.N. officials said the first week of April that it's sitting in s....

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