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Alex Lennane
January 09, 2014 at 9:48 amA helpful reader, who knows this market well, has pointed out that in fact Supreme last year lost the $8.1bn contract to supply US troops with food to Dubai company Anham. Since then it appears that most of Supreme’s flights into Afghanistan have stopped.
http://www.thenational.ae/business/economy/dubai-company-wins-dh29-billion-deal-to-supply-us-forces-in-afghanistan