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'Long struggle' with Iran seen ahead  view story
Thursday, March 9, 2006
Farah Stockman - - Boston Globe
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The State Department is preparing for a ''long struggle" against Iran and has opened a special Office of Iranian Affairs inside the department in Washington and a miniature embassy-in-exile in Dubai to help ''defeat" the Iranian regime, Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns told Congress yesterday.
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KBR - The Louisiana Connection
Farah, Read your article on KBR's Cayman subsidiaries, great artilce. I live in Vernon Parish Louisiana where over 2000 civilians have worked in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past 5 years. Most for KBR. A senior HR employee in Houston is from our area and has built a conduit of employees. Our Parish is also home to Fort Polk, a large US Army base that trains all brigades headed to either Iraq or Afghanistan. Many of the civilians working in Iraq from here have also worked at Fort Polk. Most make well over $65K. Many make in access of $100K. We have heard stories of young unskilled women who have been hired as "assistants" for management in Iraq with no real job responsiblities but to "accompany" the man around the country. Sound like paid concubines to me. It certainly helps keep men in country for long tours.... If you want some real scoop on KBR check out Vernon Parish, Louisiana. IF your numbers are right 1 in 5 of KBR's American employess come from this parish of 55,000.
Mark D. McRae
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