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					HALLIBURTON When does a company that let radioactive material slip away get rewarded with a sensitive government contract in the Iraq war? ... why, when the Vice President used to run the company, of course ... that's right, Dick Cheney's Halliburton is back ... they're admitting that they let someone walk off from their Nigeria location with a device the size of a car engine that contained americium 241 ... (yes, it's material that can be used to make a dirty bomb) ... but that didn't stop them from "winning" a contract to oversee firefighting at Iraqi oilfields after the war ... Daily Feed
Buring Iraq Oilfields circa 1991 photo: fireworld.com


HOUSTON, March 6 (Reuters) - A Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) has won the contract to oversee any firefighting operations at Iraqi oilfields after any U.S.-led invasion, a Defense Department source said on Thursday. KBR was widely viewed by many in the oilfield services industry as the likely candidate to oversee firefighting in Iraq's oilfields. Halliburton does extensive logistic support work for the U.S. military. Vice President Dick Cheney served as Halliburton's chief executive officer from 1995 to 2000. A possible beneficiary of Thursday's deal is oilwell firefighting company Boots & Coots International Well Control Inc., with which Halliburton has had an alliance since 1995. A Halliburton spokeswoman declined comment and referred all questions to the Defense Department. Copyright 2003, Reuters News Service					gbedrosian / nyc: 2/15/03


					Halliburton, a Houston-based oilfield services company, said it is cooperating, according to the Journal, which also reported that there's no evidence the theft is connected to terrorism. IAEA investigators have been in the West African nation for two weeks but have been unable to determine how the device was stolen, Mark Gwozdecky, a spokesman for the United Nations agency, told the Journal. The theft occurred between the towns of Wari and Port Harcourt in the Niger Delta, in the heart of the country's oil-producing region. The well-logging device, which was in a locked storage box that weighs about 200 pounds and is the size of a small car engine block, is used to detect the presence of oil at various depths, Halliburton spokeswoman Wendy Hall told the Journal. © 2003 American City Business Journals Inc.


(March 27, 2003) As the first bombs rain down on Baghdad, CorpWatch has learned that thousands of employees of Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, are working alongside United States troops in Kuwait and Turkey under a package deal worth close to a billion dollars. According to US Army sources, they are building tent cities and providing logistical support for the war in Iraq in addition to other hot spots in the "war on terrorism." While recent news coverage has speculated on the post-war reconstruction gravy train that corporations like Halliburton stand to gain from, this latest information indicates that Halliburton is already profiting from war time contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars. In this special series, investigative reporter Pratap Chatterjee looks at Halliburton and its subsidiaries' war pr! ofiteering. Related articles include: Cheney's Close Ties to Brown and Root Vinnell Corporation: 'We Train People to Pull Triggers' *Vinnell, Brown and Root at Turkey's Incirlik Airbase					Halliburton Makes a Killing on Iraq War