US firms in £150m deal to wipe away Saddam cult By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 16/04/2003) The United States has recruited a number of American consultancy firms to help to purge Iraqi society of decades of political terror and indoctrination, officials said yesterday. The work includes rebuilding the country's propaganda-infested school system and launching a nationwide search for "legitimate" local leaders who can liaise with Pentagon-appointed interim administrators. The contracts are worth up to £150 million in total, a spokesman for Usaid, the federal aid agency, said. Under US law governing federal spending, only American firms were allowed to...