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To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (59522)	2/27/2006 10:43:00 PM
From: Chispas	Respond to of 362386

Calculated, if the unemployed in Iraq were utilized for the rebuilding of their country the insurgency factor would obviously be mitigated. The unemployment rate, so far, gets little attention. I submit this : ...................... A senior Iraqi official said that Unemployment in Iraq stands at about 50 percent, kept high by relentless violence and little economic progress since the US led invasion three years ago, Reuters Alerts Net reported. The official said that more than 60 percent of the country's population depends on government rations to survive. He was part of an Iraqi delegation touring the United States to attract foreign investment to the war-torn country, and they spoke in Houston to a group of business executives. (cont'd) menafn.com