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Contractor Kicks Off Soccer Diplomacy


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Justin Porto, an American information technology contractor working in Iraq, has launched a program using soccer balls to generate goodwill in the country.

Porto plans to distribute soccer balls on his daily runs through the International Zone or Green Zone in Bagdad. But first he needs soccer balls sent to him in Iraq. He is calling his project Soccer for American and Iraqi Friends, or SAIF.

Porto, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, works for MPRI, a division of L-3 Communications Inc. of New York. He was featured in the Dec. 10 Last Byte column in Washington Technology. Porto works as an adviser to the Iraqi director general of communications for the Ministry of Defense.

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The rest of the article is here: http://www.washingtontechnology.com/online...referrer=google

There is an address in the article if you'd like to help him out in his goodwill mission.

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