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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: Elsewhere who wrote (97757)5/9/2003 5:39:59 PM
From: NickSE  Read Replies (4) of 281500
 
To restore peace, US hires Iraqi looters
csmonitor.com

The experiment in east Baghdad virtually eliminates looting at a power company.

BAGHDAD – US Army officials in the eastern part of the Iraqi capital are taking a novel approach to stop looters - offering some of them a job that pays better than stealing government property.

In the three days since the experiment began, the number of looters in a massive multiacre warehouse and industrial stockyard run by the Iraqi power company has dropped from several hundred to zero.
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