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IRAQ
Violence halts multinationals' work
Violence across Iraq has interrupted repair work on key electricity and water systems, and forced giant firms Siemens AG, Bechtel and General Electric to suspend some reconstruction projects, threatening to undermine the critical U.S. goal of rebuilding Iraq.
Even the U.S. Agency for International Development, which oversees some reconstruction projects, has been affected. Some 10 percent of its non-Iraqi employees are outside the country, either sent out of Iraq or unable to come in because of the violence.
The Japan Times Weekly: May 1, 2004 (C) All rights reserved
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