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17 May 2003
Filed under:Current Affairs (World) at4:07 pm

The Economist this week speaks approvingly of the US Army’s rather unorthodox way of paying unpaid Iraqi workers in Kirkuk. Reportedly, they “drilled a hole in the roof of a bank vault, retrieving around half a million dollars’ worth of Iraqi dinars.” And who were the first to get paid? The 9,000 workers of the North Oil Company – followed, admittedly, by teachers then health care workers…

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