U.S. Holds Conferences on New Iraq Contracts

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=7&u=/nm/20031110/ts_nm/iraq_contracts_dc

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Called "CPA Industry Days," the Coalition Provisional Authority's Iraq Infrastructure Reconstruction Office (IIRO) is set to draw thousands of participants at its meetings in Washington on Nov. 19 and in London two days later.

"The conferences will allow both small and large industry to see where we are going and it will enhance the transparency of the contracting process," a U.S. defense official said on Monday, adding that no new contracts would be announced.

President Bush (news - web sites) signed an $87.5 billion spending package for Iraq last week, and nearly $20 billion of that will go to reconstruction work, most of which will be done by private contractors.

The contracting process in Iraq has been severely criticized, both abroad for giving much of the prime business only to U.S. firms and in Congress where allegations have been flying about cronyism and favoritism in handing out work.

but isn't that up to the IRAQI PEOPLE to decide??

fucking looting criminals, the firing squad is too good for them...

:grr:

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