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PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:56 am    Post subject: Money Oil and Mercenaries Reply with quote

So this is why we are in Iraq?

See full article at:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article350959.ece

(Italics, bold and underline emphasis are mine).

[b]British businesses have profited by at least £1.1bn since coalition forces toppled Saddam Hussein three years ago,[/
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the first comprehensive investigation into UK corporate investment in Iraq has found.

The company [i]roll-call of post-war profiteers includes some of the best known names in Britain's boardrooms[/i] as well many who would prefer to remain anonymous...

Among the top earners is the construction firm Amec, which has made an estimated £500m from a series of contracts restoring electrical systems and maintaining power generation facilities during the past two years. Aegis, which provides private security has earned more than £246m from a three-year contract with the Pentagon to co-ordinate military and security companies in Iraq. Erinys, which specialises in the same area, has made more than £86m, a substantial portion from the protection of oilfields.[/i]

The findings show [i]how much is at stake if Britain were to withdraw military protection from Iraq.[/i] British company involvement at the top of Iraq's new political and economic structures means Iraq will be forced to rely on British business for many years to come.

A total of 61 British companies are identified as benefiting from at least £1.1bn of contracts...

Corporate Watch believes it could be as much as five times higher, because many companies prefer to keep their relationship secret.

The waters are further muddied by the Government's refusal to release the names of companies it has helped to win contracts in Iraq.

Many of the companies enjoy long-standing relationships with Labour and now have a financial stake in [i]the reconstruction of Iraq in Britain's image
. Of the total profits published in the report, the British taxpayer has had to meet a bill for £78m while the US taxpayer's contribution to UK corporate earnings in Iraq is nearly nine times that. Iraqis themselves have paid British company directors £150m.

...British private security companies are in great demand. Corporate Watch estimates there are between 20,000 and 30,000 security personnel working in Iraq, half of whom are employed by companies run by retired senior British officers and at least two former defence ministers.The biggest British player, Aegis - run by Tim Spicer, the former British army lieutenant colonel who founded the security company Sandline - has a workforce the size of a military division and may rank as the largest corporate military group ever assembled, according to the report. Other private security companies have sprung up overnight to protect British and American civilians.

Britain is also playing a leading role in advising on the creation of state institutions and the business of government. PA Consulting, which has also received a contract for advising on the Government's ID cards scheme, worth around £19m, is now a key adviser in Iraq.

Adam Smith International, a body closely linked to the right-wing think-tank used by Margaret Thatcher, has been heavily involved in the foundation of the Iraqi government and continues to influence its newly formed ministries. According to the Tory MP Quentin Davies, who visited Iraq, the advisers are "reordering Iraqi government operations at the most basic level, to help restructure some of the Iraqi ministries, in fact physically restructure them, even suggesting how the minister's office should be laid out".

Another favourite of the Thatcher governments, now involved in Iraq, is Tim Bell, who ran the Tories' election campaigns in 1979, 1983 and 1987. His PR firm Bell-Pottinger has been involved in advising on the 2004 elections and a strategic campaign to promote bigger concepts such as the return of sovereignty, reconstruction, support for the army and police, minority rights and public probity.

Loukas Christodoulou, of Corporate Watch, has been monitoring British business relations with Iraq since the invasion. He says in his conclusion to our joint report: "The presence of these consultants in Iraq is arguably a part of the UK government's policy to push British firms as lead providers of privatisation support. The Department for International Development has positioned itself as a champion of privatisation in developing countries. The central part UK firms are playing in reshaping Iraq's economy and society lays the ground for a shift towards a corporate-dominated economy. This will have repercussions lasting decades."

In five years, the £1.1bn of contracts identified in the report will be dwarfed by what Britain and the US hope to reap from investments. [u]Highly lucrative oil contracts have yet to be handed out. [/u]Peace

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It will come as no surprise that one of the chief beneficiaries above - AMEC - was also a major player in the September 11, both Pentagon and WTC.

The Knight of the Smoking Chimp

The British firm "Asset Management and Engineering Consultancy" (AMEC) "had just completed a project to strengthen and renovate a section of the Pentagon, Wedge 1, when the building was attacked" and "was paid some $752 million for its 2-year renovation and clean-up at the Pentagon", according to Christopher Bollyn of the American Free Press:

http://www.americanfreepress.net/08_16_02/Foreign_Firms_Charged_/forei gn_firms_charged_.html

AMEC claims to have completed Wedge One work the Friday before 9/11. They had only been contracted to perform the renovation work for Wedge One, the remainder being bid out to an American firm using a more efficient contract process. After 9/11, AMEC was retained to perform the cleanup as well as being one of three foreign owned firms out of four to perform WTC cleanup. AMEC also ran the barge operation to move debris to Fresh Kills. These WTC contracts were awarded by Rudolph Giuliani "before the dust had settled on Sept. 11" according to Bollyn. ---

http://www.911-strike.com/siding-scam.htm
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

AMEC has deep links with CONTROLLED DEMOLITION which some think were behind blowing up the WTC.
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Speaking in Yorkshire, Mr Giuliani said he had a lot of respect for the Prime Minister and US President George Bush for sticking to a tough line on terrorism – even when it became unpopular.
He said the world had allowed terrorists to "get out of control" by failing to take the problem seriously enough over 30 years, with those responsible allowed to get away.

http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&Article ID=1077572

Controlled Demolition Ltd are a British company too, based in Yorkshire.
Giuliani gave a speech in Yorkshire the night before 7/7 to a large ensemble of businessmen(Freemasons), his talk was based on espousing his heroics on 9/11.


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The company was called in by US demolition company Winzinger Inc., to raze the defunct silo to the ground.

The two-stage project involved blasting the top half of the 260ft wide building – shaped like a giant egg-box – before demolishing the remaining half using traditional methods.
The company's explosives experts developed an innovative new collapse mechanism which they put into practice for the first time on the Philadelphia job.

It involved effectively splitting the upper part of the silo in half by pre-drilling the concrete walls, then exploding each section separately so they fell within seconds of each other.
This reduced the amount of pressure and vibration caused by the 120kgs of explosives needed to bring down the upper storey of the silo – minimising any danger to the fuel tankers and reducing disruption to the office block and highway.

< ring any bells? Check out the foto:

http://www.demolitiongroup.co.uk/web/explosive_template/explosive.asp? Content=../../content_library/ex_case_studies.asp%7Eunusual


From the NewScientist day after 9/11:

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Classic demolition

The collapse of the WTC towers looked like a classic controlled demolition, said Mike Taylor of the National Association of Demolition Contractors in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

"If there's any good thing about this it's that the towers tended not to weaken to one side," said Taylor. "They could have tipped onto other buildings or into the river across the West Side highway."

The collapse of the WTC towers mirrored the strategy used by demolition experts. In controlled demolitions, explosives are placed not just on the lowest three floors but also on several consecutive floors about a third of the way up the building.

The explosions at the higher floors enable the collapse to gain downward momentum as gravity pulls the full weight of unsupported higher floors down into lower floors in a snowballing effect.



http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1281[quote]
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