Halliburton Unit Poised to Win 4bn GBP Garrisons Deal

[Pert_UK]

"An arm of the controversial Halliburton group, led until recently by US vice-president Dick Cheney and already profiting from Iraqi reconstruction deals, has been made preferred bidder for a £4bn Ministry of Defence contract in Britain.
Kellogg Brown & Root - in partnership with UK construction group Mowlem - is in pole position for the private finance initiative contract to upgrade and provide services to British Army garrisons at Aldershot and around Salisbury Plain.

Shares in Mowlem rose 6% to 187.5p as a bullish spokesman at Kellogg Brown & Root's Houston headquarters predicted "for all intents and purposes ... it's a done deal"."

Full story:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,11816,1004719,00.html

[indictrichardperle]

1. pay-off ?

maybe the neo-cons will stop dragging the poodle through the mud now ?

How greedy can one bald old geezer be ? Im reminded of the "Potter" character in "its a wonderful life", just a scurvey little spider in the grand realm of things, Jimmy Stewart said.

[hang a left]

2. Done Deal Eh?

They are so smug! It is almost like they are laughing in everyones faces and daring them to do something. Cheney is the Devil himself.

[NYC]

3. Guardian, of course.

Ought to be on the front page of every U.S. newspaper.