Bechtel surfaces for a third time....

In the New York Times today, yet another expose of Bechtel's long-term interest in and behind-the-scenes scheming for an oil pipeline from Iraq to Jordan, and by proximity, to Israel.

It ends:

This unilateral war and the ouster of Saddam have given the hawks and their commercial allies carte blanche in Iraq. And the company with perhaps the sleekest and most effective of all the inside tracks, a company that is fairly panting with anticipation over oil and reconstruction contracts worth scores of billions of dollars, is of course the Bechtel Group of San Francisco.

Full story here. (Again, thanks Common Dreams.)