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the whole quote is :
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SYDNEY, Australia -- Australia and the United States, military allies in the invasion of Iraq but fierce rivals in the wheat export trade, are sharpening their scythes for a battle over the big Iraqi grain market.
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$500 million just for wheat...
the whole reconstruction market should worth over $5 BILLIONS...(
here but it's in french)
here is the google translation :
The Pentagon announced Wednesday the granting of seven contracts, of a total value of some 130 million dollars, at British and American companies within the framework of the rebuilding of Iraq. The amount of each contract oscillates between 8,4 million dollars and 43,4 million dollars. It is the company Iraq Power Alliance, association between American Parsons Energy and Chemicals Group and the Parsons-Brinkerhoff British, who obtained the juiciest contract, is 43,4 million dollars for the sector of electricity. In the next days ten other contracts should be allotted, relating in particular to the sectors of public works and water or teaching and health.
The whole representing a total envelope of 5 billion dollars.