Inter Press Service
By Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail*
BAQUBA, Feb 21 (IPS) – For a few, salaries have soared. For the rest, unemployment has.
Many Iraqi workers enjoyed huge salary increases following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003. But unemployment rose more sharply under policies introduced by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA).
CPA head L. Paul Bremer decommissioned the Iraqi military, leading to overnight unemployment for hundreds of thousands of military personnel.…
