Iraqi Testimonies

"After the 1972 Iraqi-oil-revolution, many foreign companies started to fly into Iraq to reserve a space for the soon-to-flourish third world country. Oil companies and investors fought their way into the newly born economic sector in here. According to the Iraqi law, companies have to have Iraqi lawyers to supervise their work and help in the paperwork. But the baath party wouldn’t, of course, let the companies work freely. They had to know everything!

Khalid Esa Taha, a well known Iraqi lawyer at the time, was a British company’s lawyer. The company was called William Press. His job was to monitor and supervise the legality of the company’s work and make sure nothing was against the rules of the Baathist Iraq. As part of his job, he had to endure the harassments of Saddam Hussein’s henchmen and intelligence officers."
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