Oil for Freedom
Part 2
in the Rumeila Oil Field
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30 Drilling Rig in
the Rumeila Oil Field
Abdi Settar Ajid has 10 children, and more grandchildren than he can count.
Nevertheless, he hopes they don’t go to work for the oil company
because he says the work is too hard. He opposes the privatization of
oil because “I love my country, and this oil belongs to us.”
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