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THE MILITARY

Lt Gen Jay Garner

Nicknamed variously the Sheriff of Baghdad, Iraq's king, pro-consul, or 
president. Garner fought in the first Gulf war and in January was coaxed 
out of retirement to be the director of the Office of Reconstruction and 
Humanitarian Assistance for Iraq. A fan of Jinsa (the Jewish Institute for 
National security Affairs), he has praised the Israeli defence force for 
its "remarkable restraint in the face of lethal violence orchestrated by 
the leadership of the Palestinian Authority".  

After one Jinsa junket he also said: "A strong Israel is an asset that 
American military planners and political leaders can rely on." He is 
president of SY Coleman, the defence firm that specialises in Patriot 
missiles and which was awarded over a billion-dollar contract this year 
to provide logistics support to US special forces. SY Coleman is a 
subsidiary of L-3 Communications, the ninth-largest contributor to US 
political parties from the defence electronics sector.  

He is a Pentagon place man who is directly answerable to General 
Tommy Franks, head of US CentCom. This has been jumped on by 
many as proof that the reconstruction work is at best a Pentagon 
operation and at worst a military occupation. A Vietnam veteran and 
former assistant Chief of Staff, Garner is no stranger to Iraq, having 
headed the Kurdish relief programme after the first Gulf war. He is a 
close friend of Cheney and Rumsfeld, who co-opted him to work on the 
extension of missile defence in space.  

Lt Gen Ron Adams

Former commander of the Bosnia Stabilisation Force, in the first Gulf 
war he was assistant divisional commander of the 101st Airborne . He 
has held the office of Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans 
and was hand-picked by Lt Gen Jay Garner to be his deputy on the civil 
reconstruction committee.  

Lt Gen John Abizaid

Tommy Franks's second in command at Central Command in Qatar, Abizaid 
is the most senior military officer of Arab descent in the US Army 
and is currently the director of the Joint Staff. He served in the 
first Gulf war as well as in Bosnia. He will have a significant voice 
in post-war Iraq.  

Maj Gen Bruce Moore and Gen Buck Walters

Moore and Walters, both retired US Army officers, have been 
hand-picked by the Pentagon to run the north and south of Iraq 
respectively. Walters, a recently retired businessman, originates 
from President George W Bush's home state of Texas.  

Cap Frederick aeSkip' Burkle

Burkle is a medical doctor and the Iraqi team's resident polymath. 
He has worked for the World Health Organisation and USAid. This 
highly decorated Vietnam and Gulf war veteran will play a key role 
in the Iraqi health ministry.  

Gen Jerry Bates

General Bates will lead the logistical and administrative support 
operations for General Garner. He took part in the military intervention 
in Haiti. He is senior vice-president of the National Group, an arm of 
the MPRI (Military Professionals Resources Inc), which has been 
condemned for being a Pentagon-funded mercenary outfit.  

Col George Oliver

A former head of the Army War College's Peacekeeping Institute and a 
Pentagon insider, Oliver has trained Israeli military staff and was a 
delegate to the United Nations' military staff committee. He also served 
as a military adviser to the US Permanent Representative to the UN.  

Col Richard Naab

Naab was the commander of allied forces during Operation Provide 
Comfort in the Kurdish areas in northern Iraq following the first 
Gulf war and, like Garner, is seen as a friend by the Kurds. He is 
also an adviser to the Iraqi Institute for Democracy.  

THE POWER-BROKERS

Robert Reilly

Former director of Voice of America, the pro-US radio service, Reilly 
has been entrusted with overhauling Iraqi radio, television and newspapers.  

The Bush administration has already given Reilly the green light to 
operate Radio Free Iraq. This will involve using transmitters that have 
been sent to the Middle East for the military's psychological operations. 

Reilly is closely involved with an American administration plan to 
establish a media network in the Middle East. A $62m (u40m) satellite 
TV station is scheduled to begin at the end of the year.   

He is a very close friend and business partner of Ahmed Chalabi. 

Michael Mobbs

Pentagon lawyer and overall civilian co-ordinator who will be in charge 
of 11 of the ministries.  

Mobbs wants US citizens imprisoned indefinitely without charge for 
terrorist offences. A notorious hawk and close friend of Richard Perle, 
Mobbs also worked for Douglas Feith's law firm.  

Currently a Pentagon consultant, he created the legal framework for 
the indefinite detention of al-Qaeda suspects at Camp X-Ray in 
Guantanamo Bay, which was built by Bechtel (see The businesses) 
for $16m ([UKP]10m). Also a former member of the US arms control 
agency under former president Ronald Reagan.  

William Eagleton

Like George Shultz, a contemporary of George Bush Snr. and revered 
by the right as one the grand old men of republican foreign policy.  

The pair went to Yale together and both served in the Far East during 
the second world war. A career diplomat, Eagleton was based in Iraq 
between 1980-1984 as Chief of US Interests Section in Baghdad.  

His tenure there came at a time when Iraqi use of chemical weapons 
against Iran was being studiously ignored by Washington.  

He is tipped to be the "Mayor of Kirkuk", the oil-rich city in northern 
Iraq, or Kurdistan.  

Andrew Natsios

The head of USAid, United States Agency for International Development, 
Natsios is the man who hands out the post-war reconstruction contracts. 
Only US companies can bid for these lucrative deals.  

One of the most controversial episodes of his career saw him, as 
CEO of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, oversee the Big Dig 
construction project, a three-mile underground highway in Boston, 
undertaken by Bechtel. The budget spiralled out of control costing 
up to $10bn ([UKP]6.3bn) more than it should have, with the largest 
budget rises under Natsios's tenure.  

A former Massachusetts House of Representatives congressman, he is 
the author of a book called US Foreign Policy And The Four Horsemen 
Of The Apocalypse and a retired lieutenant colonel from the first Gulf 
war. He was also the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party 
for most of the 1980s.  

Natsios will be assisted by Michael Marx, the head of USAid Disaster 
Assistance Response Team (Dart) and a former US army officer. Marx 
previously headed the Dart team after the conflict in Afghanistan.  

Lewis Lucke, another USAid senior staffer, will oversee the Iraqi 
reconstruction process. He headed the USAid mission team in Haiti 
alongside Timothy Carney (see grey suits), one of the former US 
ambassadors who is now involved in administering Free Iraq. Attempts 
at establishing democracy in Haiti have so far failed, with elections 
collapsing amid allegations of electoral manipulation and fraud.  

George Shultz and Clint Williamson

A Republican heavyweight and former secretary of state under Nixon, 
Shultz was Bush Jnr's presidential campaign adviser. He is also one of 
the administration's key thinkers on running post-war Iraq, and on the 
board of directors at Bechtel, which is in the running for contracts 
after regime change. Like Perle, he has lucrative financial relationships, 
which bring his impartiality into question. Shultz is the chairman of the 
International Council of JP Morgan Chase, the banking syndicate in 
which Lewis Libby (see neo-cons) has heavy investments. Morgan Chase 
lent Saddam's regime $500m (u320m) in 1983. Shultz is a member of the 
Committee for the Liberation of Iraq and a patron of the American 
Enterprise Institute. Perle advised clients of Goldman Sachs, the 
investment house, on post-war investment opportunities in Iraq. 
Perle is also a director of the software company Autonomy Corp, which 
has clients including the Pentagon. Autonomy says it expects its profits 
to increase dramatically after the war in Iraq ends.  

Clint Williamson, who is expected to head the Iraqi ministry of justice, 
appears to be one of the good guys. A former prosecutor at the Hague's 
International War Crimes Tribunal, he helped compile evidence against 
Slobodan Milosevic. Williamson now works at Condoleezza Rice's 
National Security Agency. Williamson appears ideally placed to deal 
with the unfolding chaos gripping the nation of Iraq, and is skilled 
and seasoned in preparing indictments against war criminals.  

John Bolton

A prime architect of Bush's Iraq policy, Bolton served Bush Snr and 
Reagan in the state department, justice department and USAid and is 
now under-secretary for arms control and international security in Bush 
Jnr's state department. His appointment was intended to counter the 
dove-ish Colin Powell.  

Bolton now leads Rumsfeld's charge to destabilise Powell's 
multilateralism. Bolton is part of the Jewish Institute for National 
Security Affairs, the Project for the New American Century and is a 
vice-president at the American Enterprise Institute. He was also 
one of Bush's chad-counters during the Florida count. Bolton has 
long advocated Taiwan getting a UN seat - he's been on the payroll 
of the Taiwanese government.  

The US unilateralist is a regular contributor to William Kristol's 
right-wing Weekly Standard and has vilified UN Secretary General Kofi 
Annan. Bolton was an opponent of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty 
and a cheerleader for the Star Wars Defence System. He has hinted at 
targeting Cuba in the war on terror. His financial interests include 
oil and arms firms and JP Morgan Chase, like Shultz. It is said that 
Bolton believes in the inevitability of Armageddon.  

Like Woolsey, Bolton is said to believe we are in the midst of world war 
four which he estimates could take 40 years to finish. Despite evidence 
to the contrary they believe Iraq was involved in September 11. With 
Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Khalilzad, Bennet, Woolsey, Perle and Kristol, 
Bolton co- signed a letter in 1998 urging President Bill Clinton to 
take military action in Iraq .  

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