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Southern Iraq town hopes for jobs boom after oil auction focus 12/18/2009

Thursday, December 17, 2009


Southern Iraq town hopes for jobs boom after oil auction



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12/18/2009

NASIRIYAH — As the women of the family celebrate his eldest son’s week-old marriage, Yahya Taher Yasir sits in the adjoining room and turns his mind to his next priority: Finding a job for his second son.

A Baghdad University engineering graduate, 23-year-old Nawar has yet to land work since completing his education two years ago, in a story all too familiar for residents of the southern Iraqi town of.... MORE


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