Update: Pigs at the trough:

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Unfinished business

Richard Perle's resignation highlights questions over
US economic involvement in postwar Iraq, writes
Brian Whitaker

Friday March 28, 2003
Last week, the Guardian disclosed Mr Perle's links to an
intelligence-related computer firm that stands to profit from war
with Iraq... at least 10 out of 30 members of the
Pentagon committee are executives or lobbyists with companies
that have tens of billions of dollars' worth of contracts ...

Britain's chief military officer in the Gulf, Air Marshal Brian
Burridge, yesterday attacked American moves to hand over the
running of Iraq's largest port to a company which has a history of
bad industrial relations and has faced accusations of
union-busting. ...

The firm, Stevedoring Services of American, has been awarded a
£3m contract to manage Umm Qasr by the Bush administration....

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