Billion-dollar award against Iraqi airline surfaces in US court

Billion-dollar award against Iraqi airline surfaces in US court

An Egyptian travel company has asked a US court to enforce an award worth nearly US$1 billion against Iraqi Airways and the Iraqi state, which it won in a Cairo-seated ad hoc arbitration after being accused of being a “front” for the former regime of Saddam Hussein. 

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