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Sat 07 Jul 2008Ganley's bid for Baghdad action
After the US invasion of Iraq, Libertas founder Declan Ganley was involved in a highyl controversial tender for a slice of the multi-billion-dollar mobile telecommunications industry
IN THE EARLY period of the shambolic, controversy-filled, multi-billion-dollar reconstruction effort that followed the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Irish businessman and Libertas founder Declan Ganley was central to a mobile-phone contract bid that involved Alaskan Native Americans, a deputy under-secretary at the US Department of Defence, US intelligence concerns, and a global battle between American and European communications technologies.
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