Iraq/Kurdistan: Special Report: How Exxon Helped Make Iraqi Kurdistan

Dec 3, 2014 | Dmitry Zhdannikov, Isabel Coles and Ned Parker, Reuters
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In January 2011, Exxon hired one of the best connected men in Iraq: Ali Khedery, an American of Iraqi descent who had served in Baghdad as a special assistant to five U.S. ambassadors and a senior adviser to three U.S. generals.

At a meeting with Exxon a few months later to analyze Iraq's future, Khedery laid out his thoughts.