I thought that Halliburton had already been exonerated by the Army Corps of Engineers. THere was a ruling made by Gen Flowers that Halliburton was not required to provide cost-pricing data for its dealings with a Kuwait supplier and that a fair price was paid. The ruling was made Dec. 19. See Wall Street Journal or
http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/040106/0041000029_2.html Halliburton may not be much good at providing fuel or repairing pipelines but it is good at fixing political damaging audits and making sure that it gets contracts. Apparently one reason that the refineries are not being repaired and the electrical system is that most of the parts are from countries that did not support the war. The US contractors are simply not getting necessary replacements parts. The aim is to force Iraq to buy new US machinery. In Basra there are oodles of new airconditioners made in Oklahoma but there will be no power to run them probably. Bad old Saddam had the electrical system and refineries up and running a few months after first Gulf War. Obviously there is the expertise and people with the savvy to patch things up with duct tape! It is just that US bureaucracy is not using it. Blackouts occur regularly even in Baghdad and fuel is short and needs to be imported causing lineups at the pumps. It is fortunate for the CPA though that Halliburton is not setting the price at the pumps for Iraqis. The resistance would be quadrupled at least. Cheers, Ken Hanly.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eubulides" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 12:54 AM Subject: Halliburton; still more cash > Halliburton Gets More Iraq Work > Subsidiary KBR Wins Previously No-Bid Job > > By Jackie Spinner > Washington Post Staff Writer > Saturday, January 17, 2004; Page E01 > >
