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There are fortunes to be made in Iraq, where seemingly everything is broken or looted or blown up. The fortunes come from fixing those things; there is no shortage of cash to hire the fixers. Dale Stoffel devised elaborate schemes to get Iraqi government contracts to repair things. He posed for photos in the desert wearing a flak vest and toting an M5 submachine gun. He clenched a cigar between his teeth. Full Story