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A U.S. Fortress Rises in Baghdad:

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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

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 living in Agadez, Niger. Spending more time in town, Agadez, as bad people in the desert are spoiling the good life.
19/4/26.

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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 ï¿½Iï¿½ve never seen a project more f**ked up. Every US labor law was broken.ï¿½
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.

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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.