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Rebuilding Iraq Proves to Be A Gold Mine for Middlemen
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ^ | Monday, June 16, 2003 | GREG JAFFE

Posted on 06/16/2003 6:06:36 AM PDT by presidio9

Edited on 04/22/2004 11:49:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Mac McClelland did some quick math as he steered his Lincoln Navigator through chaotic Dubai traffic.

He'd just learned of a contract to supply food to 12,500 U.S. soldiers in Iraq. If he won it, he'd be a subcontractor to a subcontractor on a deal that originally went to Kellogg, Brown & Root, which provides support services to the military overseas.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: contracts; defensecontractors; iraq; postwariraq

1 posted on 06/16/2003 6:06:37 AM PDT by presidio9
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To: presidio9
Greg Jaffe = Al Hunt, Jr.?
2 posted on 06/16/2003 6:10:11 AM PDT by newgeezer (Your mileage may vary.)
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To: Gabrielle Reilly
Ping.
3 posted on 06/16/2003 6:24:44 AM PDT by Gabrielle Reilly
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To: presidio9
Whose paying for all this?
4 posted on 06/16/2003 7:51:24 AM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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