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peteretep
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An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009)
What him and his wife were willing to risk: moving to Norway, when one of them was Norwegian, from Iraq.
village-idiot
on April 8, 2019
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The article makes it very clear he had planned to give up his career, and they had to effectively smuggle themselves out of the country. The government was tracking him so they knew who to grab if they nationalized the oil.
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