266: I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help | This American Life

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Today’s show is devoted to just one story. Contributing editor Nancy Updike went to Iraq to try to figure out what it’s like to be a private citizen working in the middle of a war zone. Private contractors are a part of this war in unprecedented numbers, but we don’t know that much about the people doing these jobs — why they chose to come to Iraq, and what they’re seeing that we can’t.

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