Contractors Put Iraq Reconstruction On Hold (Finanicial Times)

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Many of Iraq's reconstruction projects are being put on hold after a spate of foreign kidnappings and attacks on convoys in Baghdad grounded foreign and Iraqi contractors.


"We'll give it another week. If it doesn't improve, we'll have to leave," says Trevor Holborn of the Amman-based Shaheen Group, one of hundreds of foreign workers who have suspended their operations and headed for shelter inside the walls of the Green Zone, the heavily fortified enclave where the occupation has its headquarters.

"We still have people in Iraq, but we may not able to work on a day to day basis," said a contractor with a big US energy company. "Right now Iraq is not a safe place to work, and the safety of our staff comes first."

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My sense of dread is growing by quantum leaps now.

:scared:

Oh yeah, we're all safer because we tore up Iraq. Been goooooooooood for everybody, innit?

2500 US Soldiers surrounding Najaf is going to make Iraq blow! Great work yet again chimpass*... :grr:

I pray you are wrong.

I doubt you are.

Watch how fast "democratizing" Iraq dissappears as an issue when these companies start leaving. There is no higher principle than profits. This is the turning point.

Looks like the murder and mutilation of those Blackwater people was specifically meant to get the companies to haul ass out of Iraq. The people the US are fighting are not fools.

Now they're gonna HAVE to ask for more troops.

Or find a quick exit.

:shrug: