Journeys to the Killing Fields

T. Christian Miller of the Los Angeles Times and Cam Simpson and Aamer Madhani of the Chicago Tribune had amazing stories this weekend tracing how laborers from impoverished countries are being hired by U.S. military contractors to do dangerous, poorly paid work in Iraq. Miller's "Poor Migrants Work in Iraqi Netherworld" and Simpson's and Madhani's two-part series, "Pipeline to Peril," are compelling, important stories.
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