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To: Elsewhere who wrote (97757)	5/9/2003 5:02:22 PM
From: Lou Weed	Respond to of 281500

<<Iraqis enjoying fruit previously forbidden by Saddam>> I've got just the thing to win them over......free NFL package to all Iraqi Directv subscribers. Hearts and minds will be a cinch ;-) MON

To: Elsewhere who wrote (97757)	5/9/2003 5:39:59 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to 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.