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A U.S. Fortress Rises in Baghdad:

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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
A U.S. Fortress Rises in Baghdad:
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Asian Workers Trafficked to Build World's Largest Embassy

The Kuwait-based company building the $592-million Baghdad project is the exception. Brutal and inhumane, he says �I�ve never seen a project more f**ked up. Every US labor law was broken.�

In the resignation letter last June, Owens told First Kuwaiti and US State Department officials that his managers beat their construction workers, demonstrated little regard for worker safety, and routinely breached security.

Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
doesn't really suprise me
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Corporations only there to make suoer profits for already obscenely rich Texans. Discuss.

Arrogant world power dominates smaller nation. Discuss.

"We only beat Iraqis" It don't count!. Discuss.

"Embassy" Yeah right!! - CIA bunker. Discuss.
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
one of the surprises of the US "occupation" is the extent of a dome (oil) under Tikrit. Evidently it's huge.
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
20/5/20

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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Of course, what a lucky co-incidence!
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