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Insurgents cripple Iraq's economy through sabotage, attacks.
Byline: Ken Dilanian
BAGHDAD, Iraq _ Four months ago, Walid K. Issa Taha was full of hope for Iraq's economic prospects. These days, that hope has vanished.
Taha represents foreign companies trying to do business in Iraq, and one of his clients is a Kuwaiti firm that drew up plans for a $500 million hotel and shopping complex in Baghdad's affluent Mansour neighborhood.
But now, "they don't call anymore," and Taha rarely leaves his office for fear of being kidnapped. "There's nothing happening," he said. "The security situation has ruined everything."
By snatching foreign workers, attacking civilian convoys and sabotaging infrastructure, insurgents have crippled Iraq's badly needed economic recovery. Despite the lifting of international sanctions and economic reforms that opened Iraq to foreign companies, little foreign investment has materialized. Companies _ even multinationals that do business in the farthest reaches of the developing world _ aren't willing ...
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