An Iraqi worker shuts down a pumping tube at the Iraqi Pipelines Company (click here) is Basra (Basra is the port city the USA and Maliki have attempted to kill Shiites 'as part of the problem.) on June 5. Employees there recently went on strike, shutting down two pipelines carrying oil and gas products inside Iraq. In 2003, the union forced Halliburton out of the oil fields, which inspired port workers to oust the Danish shipping company Maersk from the docks. The oil workers’ union also wants U.S. troops to start withdrawing immediately. “I’d rather they withdraw yesterday than today,” Umara says. “I assure you, chaos will not happen, and even if it happened, I’m very sure we can solve our own problems.” - David Moberg
Whatever makes anyone believe Iraq was the first country Halliburton has killed to insure profits?
Cheney was CEO.
Halliburton has a very dark history. The difference between Nigeria and Iraq is that Cheney was actually able to CON the American people into believing Iraq was a threat.
In Iraq, Halliburton didn't have blood on their hands, that's all.
Halliburton was never 'in it' to service the American military in Iraq. That was a past time until they could get into Iran. Halliburton was in Iraq by the SECOND day of the invasion to SECURE the oil fields. Hello?
(Click title to entry - thank you) A major US engineering and military contractor has agreed to pay more than $500-million in penalties and fees to settle bribery allegations against one of its subsidiaries that operates in Nigeria.Halliburton Company, which until 2007 controlled the Houston, Texas-based KBR (also known as Kellogg, Brown, and Root), has agreed to pay $382-million of a $402-million fine and $177-million in fees incurred through US federal charges lodged against KBR by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). KBR will pay $20 million.
The SEC alleges that KBR disbursed millions of dollars in bribes to Nigerian officials to win contracts for building a $6-billion gas liquefaction plant on Nigeria’s Bonny Island.In 2005, KBR was able to emerge from US Chapter 11 bankruptcy and show profitability as a corporation.In spinning off KBR two years later, Halliburton agreed to cover the contingent liabilities of its former subsidiary.Houston-based Nigerian journalist Chido Nwangwu, who publishes USAfrica Online, says that the liquefaction plant is in some ways detrimental to Nigerian economic gains in that it facilitates and encourages international oil giants to ship Nigerian crude out of the country for refining, which lowers the profit that the Africans can obtain for their valuable resource....
Halliburton Opens Door ToMiddle East Investors (click here)
Nigeria: Halliburton Deal - EFCC Quizzes Nigerian Officials (click here)
Erasmus Alaneme
2 April 2009
Abuja — Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday said some of the Nigerian officials named in the Halliburton bribe scam have been quizzed by its operatives even as it awaits the official list from the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Michael Aondoakaa.
Chairman of the EFCC, Farida Waziri made this known in Abuja during the opening of the 3rd Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Compliance Stakeholders summit in Abuja.
This is even as the National Assembly has urged the anti-graft body to make use of Section 7 (1-b) of the 1999 Constitution which permits it to arrest people living beyond their means without any petition.
Waziri while answering questions from newsmen immediately after the opening section of the summit, said EFCC had started working on the case and had sent message to the AGF to make the list of those involved as well as the actual judgment against them available to the commission....
