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Postwar Iraq … it's not just for Bechtel -
The San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Friday, April 25, 2003 | David Armstrong, Vanessa Hua, Chronicle Staff Writers

Posted on 04/25/2003 1:03:46 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:42:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Carolyn McIntyre can hardly wait to go back to Iraq.

The Middle East director for San Francisco adventure travel company Geographic Expeditions last saw Baghdad in the late 1970s, just as Saddam Hussein was taking over and long before the first Gulf War and trade sanctions put Iraq off-limits for U.S. companies.


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1 posted on 04/25/2003 1:03:46 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Didn't Finstinse's husbands company get a big contract in Iraq?
2 posted on 04/25/2003 1:05:43 PM PDT by Phantom Lord (Distributor of Pain, Your Loss Becomes My Gain)
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