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Big Bechtel links to rebuilding Iraq with Officials involved: http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=4365&forum=DCForumID66

BECHTEL IS CONNECTED TO BIN LADEN!
<http://money.cnn.com/2003/05/05/news/companies/war_bechtel/index.htm>

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The Bush administration launched a war on terror because of the alleged acts of Osama bin Laden. Ironically, one of the companies the administration has picked to rebuild Iraq after the latest phase of that war has ties to bin Laden's family, according to a published report.

According to an article in the May 5 issue of New Yorker magazine, several bin Laden family members -- part of a large, Saudi Arabian family that made a fortune in the construction business -- invested about $10 million in a private equity fund operated by former subsidiary of Bechtel before Sept. 11.
Fremont Group, a San Francisco-based private investment firm, once was a unit of Bechtel, and its board still includes Bechtel CEO Riley P. Bechtel and former U.S. Secretary of State and former Bechtel President George P. Shultz, along with several current Bechtel directors.