As the role of the US shrinks and the Baghdad government takes on more responsibility for reconstruction, Iraq's new business class fears the disappearance of the opportunities and the business environment that have allowed it to flourish. "If the Americans leave Iraq, I will leave Iraq," says Mohammed al-Shamari, a 35- year-old businessman from the Shia al-Khadimiya district of Baghdad. "The Americans didn't care that I was poor, or the tribe I came from. They just cared that I could get things done," he says.
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