The Balkans: Iraq Jobs · Global Voices
Veronica Khokhlova

Neretva River reports on an American firm recruiting the unemployed in the Balkans “to carry out various jobs assisting the US military in Iraq in fields of work ranging from truck driving to engineering”: “One 22 year old prospective KBR employ noted that his family were praying that he wouldn’t get a job with KBR and wouldn’t get sent to Iraq, but he also made clear the fact that if he remained in Croatia, he had no prospect of finding a job.”