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Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)
August 7, 2020
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Zack Kopplin
How Mike Pompeo Built a Blood-for-Oil Pipeline
The State Department, a conservative-connected shell company, and a key Kurdish crime family team up to siphon Syrian oil for U.S. investors.
July 24, 2020
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Zack Kopplin
How Taxpayer Dollars May Have Bought a Kurdish Strongman’s Beverly Hills Mansions
A story of Iraqi politics, Pentagon oil contracts, and an ongoing foreign policy disaster
May 6, 2020
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Zack Kopplin
Why Is the Pentagon Still Paying $10 a Gallon for Gas?
Amid a global oil collapse, the military is overpaying politically connected contractors to keep its jets fueled in Iraq.
June 17, 2010
Ian Klaus
Kurdish Promise
May 5, 2003
Eli Lake
Split Decision
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