Bechtel finishes $2.3 billion Iraq job mourning 52 dead workers – AP Wire | 11/01/2006
At one time, one of those? workers could have been me.
My heart goes out to all of those families that lost their loved ones for the pursuit of profit for Bechtel.
Bechtel finishes $2.3 billion Iraq job
mourning 52 dead workers
MICHAEL LIEDTKE
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO – Wrapping up more than three years of work that cost the U.S. government $2.3 billion, Bechtel Inc. is leaving Iraq with a subdued sense of accomplishment after suffering through an unanticipated spree of violence that killed 52 workers.
The departure of the San Francisco-based engineering firm serves as another sobering reminder of how the carnage in Iraq has scrambled the United States’ once-grand ambitions to rebuild the devastated country. Read more
