<nettime> [IRAQ] Corruption at the highest level

[Mark Tribe <mt@rhizome.org>]

The New York Times reported today that "Bush administration plans for the 
rebuilding of Iraq call for private American corporations to undertake much 
of the work, with the United Nations development agencies and other 
multilateral organizations sidelined." The article goes on to explain that 
"companies asked to bid on the contracts include Kellogg Brown & Root, a 
subsidiary of Halliburton Company, which Vice President Dick Cheney once 
headed."

Full text at 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/18/international/middleeast/18POST.html

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