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Irak
- Transfert de souveraineté : Une "orgie
de corruption" -
In the final weeks of its "formal" occupation of Iraq the Bush
Regime plunged into an orgy of graft that stripped Iraq's treasury bare...
Global
Eye - Master Class
The Moscow Times 09/07/04
"...Last week saw a flurry of stories (largely ignored,
naturally) indicating that the pervasive corruption of America's
colonial enterprise has risen to new heights. Reports by
scrupulously nonpartisan institutions, including Christian Aid and
the General Accounting Office, the independent investigative arm
of the U.S. Congress, revealed that in the final weeks of its
"formal" occupation of Iraq -- before handing over
nominal control of the client state to CIA-backed terrorist leader
and ex-Baathist enforcer Iyad Allawi -- the Bush Regime plunged
into an orgy of graft that stripped Iraq's treasury bare. Most of
this loot was divvied up in no-bid contracts to Regime lardbuckets
like Halliburton -- but up to $3 billion of it simply
"disappeared" into pockets yet unknown, The Baltimore
Sun reports.
Like their Baathist predecessors, the Bushist
overlords were given control of the UN-established Development
Fund, which was supposed to guarantee that Iraq's oil revenues
were spent on the needs of the Iraqi people. But like Saddam
Hussein, Bush instead used the fund as a barrel of personal pork
to reward cronies and buy local political support with bribes. By
the time Bush viceroy Paul Bremer made his hugger-mugger handover
of "sovereignty" to CIA man Allawi, there was less than
$1 billion left in the $20 billion fund -- with more than $6
billion of this siphoned off in just the last two months of direct
U.S. rule, The Guardian reports.
Where did it all go? Half went to "Iraqi ministries"
staffed with local frontmen like Allawi and his cousin, convicted
fraudster and intelligence forger Ahmad Chalabi, and with Bush
partisans from back home, many of them young right-wing zealots
with no administrative experience whatsoever. Another chunk went
to military units for use in rebuilding buildings they'd blasted
down, paying compensation to the families of innocent people
they'd killed, and buying intelligence and informants to help meet
Bushist quotas for filling the torturous interrogation rooms in
Abu Ghraib and its gulag satellites -- where the Red Cross says up
to 90 percent of all the captives were innocent. Money well spent,
obviously.
The rest of the fund was given to Halliburton
and friends for "reconstruction" -- usually in
noncompetitive contracts doled out by Bremer and his handpicked
"Iraqi Governing Council" without any independent
review, the GAO reports. Almost all of the $20 billion fund was
oil revenue -- a nationalized resource belonging solely to the
Iraqi people. And except for some chump change left behind for the
CIA terrorist, it's all gone now..."
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Voir :
Contracting
for Iraq
Reconstruction
and for Global Logistics Support
GAO report 15/06/04 (pdf)
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