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Iraqi Workers Make Armor for U.S. Army Humvees.

By Bill Glauber, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 4--BAGHDAD -- On the grounds of Saddam Hussein's former presidential palace, near an ornamental pond and fountain, a few dozen Iraqi workers are engaged in one of the most crucial military undertakings in the country.

They're putting armor on U.S. Army Humvees.

Banging, sanding, welding and painting, laborers who earn $6 daily are creating from steel a life-saving skin for American soldiers traveling the mean streets of a dangerous country.

These workers have

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