http://www.ruckus.org/warprofiteers/cards/clubs/king.htmlMeanwhile independent agencies are still skeptical about claimed financial savings from contracting out military support operations. According to the Government Accounting Office (GAO), a February 1997 study showed that a Brown and Root operation in Bosnia estimated at $191.6 million when presented to Congress in 1996 had ballooned to $461.5 million a year later. All told this former Yugoslavia contract has now cost the taxpayer $2.2 billion over the last several years.
Examples of overspending by contractors include flying plywood from the United States to the Balkans at $85.98 a sheet and billing the army to pay its employees' income taxes in Hungary.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/619/619p12.htmPeter Boyle
What began as a class assignment for Nick Calacouras, a final-year journalism student at the University of Technology Sydney — a small investigative project into subcontractors who handle Australia's foreign aid turned into a research project that swallowed eight months of his life. It also led to the most comprehensive account to be published so far on the Australian operations of the controversial US corporation Halliburton.
Halliburton is the No. 1 corporate beneficiary of the war against Iraq, raking in US$18 billion in contracts to rebuild the country's oil industry and providing logistical services to the US occupation troops, according to the US-based Corpwatch's 2004 alternative annual report on Halliburton, Houston, We Have A Problem.
Halliburton's activities are critically scrutinized on the website <
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org>, where the report can be read.
Calacouras told Green Left Weekly that he started unravelling Halliburton's contracts “and stumbled upon other government contracts in defence, transport, essential services by Halliburton subsidiaries or Halliburton-linked companies. It was so amazing it soon became my life, all I could think about or talk about.”
An article, co-written with Calacouras' lecturer and respected investigative journalist Wendy Bacon, was published on page 14 of the March 1 Sydney Morning Herald under the innocuous title “A profit powerhouse”. On the SMH's website the article is listed in the “Business” section.
IRAQ: Halliburton Employee Says Co-Workers Gang-Beat him at Baghdad Airport
Ronald Chavez reported to higher authority within the Halliburton chain of command the vulnerabilities at Baghdad Airport regarding to terrorist attacks, according to his father, Eli Chavez. Ronald further stated that higher authority was upset at his recommendations, his father said.
http://www.corpwatch.org//article.php?id=12020by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
March 30th, 2005
The father of an employee of Halliburton subsidiary KBR in Iraq is alleging that his son was gang-beaten by a group of fellow employees, known as the "Red Neck Mafia," at the Baghdad airport where he works as a security coordinator for KBR. We speak with Eli Chavez, the father of KBR employee Ronald Chavez.
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