Iraq firm now making music instead of bombs
By Sammy Ketz | China Daily | Updated: 2010-10-19 07:56
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A bomb-disposal robot is exhibited at the 2010 Expo in the capital Baghdad on Oct 13. A string of companies created during the regime of deposed dictator Saddam Hussein have since transformed under an order of the post-invasion government of US diplomat Paul Bremer to turn military industries into civilian ones. Ali Al-Saadi / Agence France-Presse |
BAGHDAD - Before the 2003 United States-led invasion, Iraq's Al-Shaheed State Company used to make a blast, literally. Now it helps to produce music.
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