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...officials say leaders of the insurgents sometimes subcontract work to young, often unemployed, Iraqi males. According to some who have been captured, an attack on U.S. troops can bring as much as $1,000, five times that if G.I.s die. Abizaid said last week coalition forces are facing fewer than 5,000 insurgents in all. That figure, while based on interrogations of Iraqi fighters, is "little more than a smart guess," says a senior Pentagon official. Among the estimated 5,000, military officials say, are perhaps a couple of hundred foreigners who have infiltrated Iraq to confront the Americans...
...Klausner’s schedule shows he attended meetings to discuss the contract during this time, and “it appears [he] had detailed personal knowledge about this subcontract and its status,” according to the letter, which was also sent to NIH director Dr. Elias Zerhouni...
...five-year subcontract from Klausner’s National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Science Applications International Corporation funded Harvard’s Molecular Target Laboratory, which studies the role of proteins in diseases...
...take your country to war when it doesn't really want to go? You could subcontract with another nation, fight on the sly and hope no one notices. But if you need a lot of troops to prevail and you would like to remind everyone in the neighborhood who's boss anyway, then what you need most is a good reason--something to stir up the folks back home...
...Approximate number of solicitations Bechtel received in less than three weeks from people and companies seeking a subcontract...