Some 50 Iraqi contractors listened recently at a Sunday bid meeting to Kellogg, Brown & Root project manager Glenn Powell via a translator. To get there, they had passed through four U.S. military checkpoints along a quarter-mile stretch through a heavily fortified Baghdad "green zone" for foreigners doing business in Iraq. "My boss sends me here because it's the only way to get business from the Americans," said Abeer al-Mosawi, engineer with materials and electrical firm Rusafina General Contracting Co.
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机译:最近,在周日的投标会议上,约有50名伊拉克承包商通过翻译听了凯洛格·布朗与根基金会项目经理格伦·鲍威尔的讲话。为了到达那里,他们经过了四分之一英里的四个美国军事检查站,经过了一个坚固的巴格达“绿色区”,以外国人在伊拉克经商。材料和电气公司Rusafina General Contracting Co.的工程师Abeer al-Mosawi说:“我的老板把我送到这里,是因为这是从美国人那里获得业务的唯一途径。”
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