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001 2006280977
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008 060822s2004 nyu e b 001 0 eng d
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050 00 $aDS79.769$b.C55 2004
082 00 $a956.7044/3$222
100 1 $aChatterjee, Pratap.
245 10 $aIraq, Inc. :$ba profitable occupation /$cPratap Chatterjee.
250 $aSeven Stories Press 1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSeven Stories,$cc2004.
300 $a247 p. ;$c18 cm.
440 3 $aAn open media book
520 $aMore than one year after the "fall of Baghdad," the reconstruction of Iraq is failing terribly. In this book, Chatterjee delivers an on-the-ground account of the occupation business, exposing private contractors as the only winners in this war. He examines the big failings and even bigger swindles of Iraq's corporate managers, from the dangerous follies of an out-of-touch government-in-exile to the unchecked price gouging by Cheney's successors at Halliburton. He contrasts the employment boom of mercenaries--more than 20,000 soldiers of fortune from apartheid-era South Africa, Pinochet's Chile, and elsewhere--with the crowds of unemployed locals ripe for recruitment to the resistance. He brings us the dilapidated hospitals, looted ministries, and guarded corporate enclaves that mark the plunderous road to America's "free Iraq."--Publisher description
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 217-229) and index.
505 0 $aOperation sweatshop Iraq -- Reconstruction racket -- Soldiers of fortune -- Shadow government.
650 0 $aPostwar reconstruction$zIraq$xFinance.
651 0 $aIraq$xPolitics and government$y2003-
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0704/2006280977.html