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The Unsung Heroes Of Iraq’s Emerald City

Posted by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief in Media, War.
May 30th, 2008 | Comments

You don’t hear much about them. They’re unsung heroes. People from places such as Uganda who work — and die — with little fanfare in their jobs as cleaners, cooks and construction workers in Iraq’s Green Zone.
A MUST READ original report from the scene.

  • runasim
    Thnak you, Joe for devoting a post to this topic.
    If this were added to an article about the US miniscule reaponse to the fate of displaced Iraqis...
    If this were added to an article about the fate of construction workers and other laborers spirited into Iraq by subcontractors of US firms, often by means so fraudelent as to amount to kidnapping,....

    ... we might eventaully get a better idea about the costs of the war.

    With a sleeping press, and a government intent only on shining its own haloes,
    I wonder if we will ever really know what the Iraq experiment consisted of..
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