Yes. And it is important to focus on who most benefits from this strife.
Note the last paragraph included here. (Bechtel also built huge U.S.
largely underground air and military facility in Saudi Arabia. Carlo
Parcelli

61 Bechtel Corporation

                   See also - Talk on Bechtels at the 1997 WMC
Alternative AGM.

     Founded by Warren Bechtel in 1898 as a railway company, Bechtel is
now the 25th largest corporation in the
     US, and the largest engineering construction company in the world.
It "has participated in engineering and
     constructing almost half the nuclear power plants built in the USA.
It reportedly has the closest links of any
     company with the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
excluding the CIA's own front companies" (1).

     The US Agency for International Development (AID) - the "aid" wing
of the CIA - has awarded Bechtel a
     US$4.3 million technical services contract to "help" several third
world countries to "develop" their fossil fuel
     resources; the countries include Morocco, Bangladesh, Costa Rica,
and Jamaica (2).

     The appointment of George Schultz as US Secretary of State in June
1982 brought light to bear on the secrecy
     with which the Bechtel Corporation operates, for Schultz is a
former president of Bechtel, while US Secretary of
     Defense Weinberger was formerly chief counsel to the corporation,
and other right-wing US officials (such as
     Richard Helms of the CIA under Nixon, and Secretary of the
Department of Energy, W Kenneth Davis) also
     held high office in Bechtel.

     Schultz remains chairman of the company but the finance is firmly
in the hands of the Bechtel family which owns
     the majority of the company's shares.

     In order to buy the silence of former top executives it gives them
huge handshakes on their retirement - something
     which has turned many former executives literally into overnight
millionaires (3).

     Philip Habib, US special "peace" negotiator, is also a consultant
of Bechtel, hired by none other than George
     Schultz in 1981 (4). After Schultz's appointment there were
allegations among US congress members that the
     company would "tilt" against Israel because of Bechtel's Middle
East interests (16% of its 1981 revenue came
     from the oil states, especially from Saudi Arabia where it is
turning an indigenous fishing village into an industrial
     city of 300,000 inhabitants at Jubail) (3).