Tuesday, 18. March 2003
Topic: W A R - on March 18, 2003 at 9:59:09 AM CET
US firms get $1.5bn deal to rebuild Iraq
The United States plans to transform the infrastructure of Iraq within a year of a war ending, but has sidelined aid agencies by allocating almost all the funds available to private American firms.
Non-governmental organisations and the UN would get just $50m, a tiny fraction of the $1.5bn being offered to private companies, according to more than 100 pages of confidential contract documents leaked to the Wall Street Journal.
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