Posted on 02/16/2008 10:01:42 PM PST by skully
1st business expo in Iraq since 2003 draws crowd Bradley Brooks Associated Press Feb. 17, 2008 12:00 AM
BAGHDAD - Nattily dressed Iraqi businessmen mingled Saturday with a few of their American counterparts at the first business exposition to be held in Baghdad since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
About 260 vendors - almost all Iraqi - set up booths on the ground floor of the Green Zone's al-Rashid Hotel, which still bears the scars of a 2003 rocket attack.
Hundreds of visitors crammed the hallways, picking up brochures and free candies from the booths of businesses mostly reflecting the immediate needs of Iraq: construction, security, logistics and raw goods.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0217IraqBiz0217.html
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Brave crowd. Any crowd in Iraq has to be.
Real Freedom always goes together with capitalism. Way to go Iraq!
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0217IraqBiz0217.html
Progress shows in many forms. The Rat a just to blind to see it.
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