Oil for Freedom
Part 2

42Drilling Rig in the Rumeila Oil Field
Kefla Talib, head of the union for the Iraqi Drilling Company, organized the workers to keep the US company KBR (a division of Halliburton) from bringing in foreign crews to rebuild the oil installations after the occupation began, which would have cost the jobs of thousands of Iraqis. Today he and his fellow workers are trying to stop the privatization of the oil, or giving contracts to foreign companies on terms that would cost workers jobs, and give away the money Iraq need from the oil to rebuild after two decades of war.

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