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Tom Lasseter
@TomLasseter
Reuters, Finance & Markets, Enterprise Editor. Pulitzer winner (Myanmar team, 2019), Pulitzer finalist (Hong Kong team, 2020). Mississippi born, Georgia raised.
Nov 8, 2019 • 97 tweets • 34 min read
It’s been 15 years since the U.S. military's battle for Fallujah. November 2004. This will be a little long. Just stay with me for a while, I promise I’ll get there. (All of this is from reporting clips and a bit of memory. Haven’t gone back through notebooks) During the first week of June 2003, the Grand Hyatt in Amman was hosting a conference, “Doing Business With Iraq.” U.S. diplomats and aid agency heads met with businessmen, mostly Jordanian, to talk about the post-invasion landscape.