Should be of interest to the free market fascists here...
Brits win water fight
Article indicating that Jay Garner, the retired US general
lined up to govern occupied Iraq, has put a stop to a
US Army plan to marketise the
distribution of water in Umm Qasr ( New York
Daily News )
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See also this NY Daily News article
from yesterday, in which the scheme is described in more detail, and this
blog entry from Sunday
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See also this Guardian article from
last week, about British objections to the US decision to turn control of
the port at Umm Qasr over to a private contractor,
Stevedoring Services of America
