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Two days before the US Air Force began bombing Baghdad, the US Corps of Engineers signed a $45 million contract with the Kuwaiti government-in-exile that calls for the military engineers to make a preliminary damage assessment and help put in place basic services. "We went right to them," said Kuwaiti Planning Minister Suleiman Muttawa. Cost estimates for cleaning up and rebuilding the country's infrastructure and petrochemical sector run as high as $100 billion.

Kuwait, slightly smaller than New Jersey, will need rehabilitation of a range of facilities, including roads, bridges, oil refineries and oil distribution systems, as well as water, electrical and telephone …