No surprise: Bechtel awarded $1.8B contract in Iraq

This announcement comes as no suprise, but now we know the dollar amount of this contract (just one of many) that Bechtel will receive to colonize Iraq.

This is from the 1/6/04 San Francisco Business Times:

USAID awards $1.8B Iraq contract to Bechtel
San Francisco-based Bechtel National Inc. said Tuesday that the U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded it a $1.8 billion Iraqi infrastructure repair contract.

Bechtel National is the government contracting arm of the Bechtel group of companies. It will work with Pasadena-based Parsons and Fairfax, Va.-based Horne Engineering Services on the Iraq Infrastructure II project.

Bechtel, which put out 650 oil fires with help from its many subcontractors after the first Gulf War, has already done considerable work in reconstructing Iraq, including opening the deep water port of Umm Qasr last spring.

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