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New Orleans or Baghdad? They Choose Baghdad
According to The Guardian
A $5bn (£2.5bn) tourism and development scheme for the Green Zone being hatched by the Pentagon and an international investment consortium would give the heavily fortified area on the banks of the Tigris a “dream” makeover that will become a magnet for Iraqis, tourists, business people and investors. About half of the [...]
No-Bid Contractor KBR Responsible for Deaths of Soldiers… You Decide
KBR, one of those “in place” no bid contractors, and former subsidiary of Halliburton, denies responsibility for the electrocution of soldiers in Afghanistan and severe shocks in Iraq.
According to the NYT
One electrician warned his KBR bosses in his 2005 letter of resignation that unsafe electrical work was “a disaster waiting to happen.” Another said he [...]
