The effects of the war on the
Union are dictable. But the leaders of all the which the there is joint planning and control Karen O'Toole been buried, George Bush, Donald derous friends had already designed the new Iraq, down to the water supply, sewerage, roads and oil. ple, but the extension of the US's beloved neoliberal agenda. Already, way to pay for reconstruction is through the privatisation of the coun try's national oil industry.
During the course of the bombing over 15,000 guided bombs, 7500 unguided and 750 cruise missiles were dropped. To 'reconstruct' Iraq, the World Bank estimates, will cost the Iraqi people $600 billion over the next twenty years. US big business has no plans to construction contract in the world.
Below we list some of those for whom Iraq has now been "liberated". SY Coleman the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA), a ister the massive reconstruction process. He is also president of SY on the use of Patriot missiles which has contracts in Israel. one of the largest contributors to US political parties within the defence industry. In 2000 Garner put his name to a statement condemning Palestinian violence against Israelis. The statement was issued by a proIsraeli think tank, which includes amongst its members Dick Cheney and Richard Perle ior Bush figures such as Rumsfeld, to justfy their decision to give contracts only to US companies by comparisons with EU policies. Halliburton the company between 1995-2000 EVEN BEFORE any civilian corpses had Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and their murThis is not a new Iraq for Iraqi peothe Bush assassins argue that the only
from it. leave Iraq, ever. It is even recruiting its own police force to which only US citizens can apply. Iraq is now the biggest scandal.
(KBR) Retired General Jay Gamer is head of Pentagon agency now ruling Iraq's 23
fighting oil well fires. million people. His agency will adminBechtel Coleman, a missile specialist advising
SY is owned by L-3 Communications
president at Bechtel.
The USA has started to award reconstruction contracts to it own preferred bidders', companies with links to senCheney and George Shultz. They seek Bush's Vice President Dick Cheney ran
IRAK J port". and still receives $180,000 a year The company has been criticised by its own shareholders for dealing with Iran, one of the US's self-proclaimed "Axis of Evil". It is being investigated Fluor by the Securities and Exchange Commission for a possible accounting Kellogg Brown and Root A subsidiary of Halliburton, KBR also has links to Cheney. It is the company that constructed the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. It has already been awarded a $7 billion contract for George Shultz, former Secretary of State is on its board. Shultz is also chairman of the San Francisco-based "Advisory Board for the Liberation of Iraq". Jack Sheehan, a retired general who sits on the Defence Policy Board of the Pentagon, is also senior vice
Bechtel has been given the main contract for the reconstruction of Iraq's infrastructure, worth almost $700m, to rebuild water electricity and sewage systems This contract is the largest part of the £1.1bn initial reconstruction project.
- The company is also one of three partners in Tube Lines, who now run part of the London Underground
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Group $7 million contract for "personnel supStevedoring $4.8 million contract to manage the port of Um Qasar. Construction company specialising in oil. Vice president, Kenneth Oscar is a former army secretary. Louis Berger Group Won $300 million contract for reconstruction in Afghanistan DynCorp Won contract to recruit a private police force for Iraq. . Has contracts for Plan Colombia involving spraying herbicides over the country.
Its employees in Bosnia were accused by a colleague of involvement in an illegal sex ring, buying and selling prostitutes as young as 12, and rape According to some sources the invited bidders contributed almost $3.6million during the latest US election cycle, mainly to the Republicans.