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...winners have a cautionary tale to consider. The first foreign firm awarded a post-Saddam Hussein contract was the Chinese National Petroleum Corp. Oil began to flow six months after CNPC began work on the Ahdad field, located 90 miles south of Baghdad in Wasit province. But it involved learning to work with locals - with the community relations continuing to be volatile. (See a video of Iraq's domestic oil supply problems...
...CNPC's deal with Baghdad, locals would be given work doing security for the facility alongside local police. But the jobs did not seem to satisfy the expectations of the residents. "We did not get a job and our house is suffering from unemployment," says Umm Mohammed, 65, who lives in nearby Alsabah village. "This is what disgusts me and my children." She and her neighbors say local investment and jobs were promised but not delivered and farmland was damaged by oilfield equipment and compensation was never provided. (See pictures of President Obama's visit to Iraq...
Wisely, Hill knows he too won't always be warmly received. "I simply hope," he says, that "people will hear me out." As for flying footwear: "I can duck with the best of them." Let's hope that for Washington's new man in Baghdad, it doesn't get worse than that...
Hoekstra has had his problems with Twitter before: last February, he tweeted his whereabouts while touching down into Baghdad on a trip that was supposed to be kept secret for security reasons. His office did not return a request for comment, but the congressman may be taking some time to rethink his new media strategy since the June 17 post. It took him two days to tweet again...
...lawmakers as Congress prepared to pass a $106 billion emergency war-spending bill that will fund, among other things, some 70,000 new uniforms for troops in Afghanistan. Evidently the country's muddy, mountainous terrain clashes with the "universal camouflage pattern" designed for dusty desert cities like Basra and Baghdad...