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Abbas Mehdi, an Iraqi native and professor at St. Cloud State University, recently returned from Iraq. (MPR Photo/Greta Cunningham)

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War in Iraq

Fourteen months in Iraq

Broadcast: Midday, 12/06/2007, 11:00 a.m.

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Iraqi-American Abbas Mehdi is back in Minnesota after spending 14 months helping rebuild his country's economy.

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  • Abbas Mehdi: Professor of sociology at St. Cloud State University. During his time in Iraq, Mehdi served as a senior advisor to the U.S. Agency for International Development and with the Iraqi government as chairman of the Iraqi National Investment Commission.

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