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Monday, October 29, 2012

How ExxonMobil Outsmarted Baghdad

How ExxonMobil Outsmarted Baghdad

Ben Van Heuvelen, Foreign Policy
In 2006, an Iraqi technocrat named Tariq Shafiq was charged with crafting an oil law. A Berkeley-trained engineer, he began his career in the 1950s, rising through the consortium of foreign firms that comprised the Iraq Petroleum Company. . .http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/10/26/the_backfire_in_baghdad

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