Gitmo is not going to be shutdown its going to be expanded 8O Cheney is going to make money on it http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=8820102 It's a Reuters story from yesterday but i can't get the link to work :?
Halliburton in the News
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I'm very surprised nobody has anything to say about Halliburton building the new Gitmo what with all the calls for it to be closed down in Main stream media 8O
RE: Halliburton in the Ne
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Halliburton Co. (HAL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) unit will build a new $30 million detention facility and security fence at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the United States is holding about 520 foreign terrorism suspects, the Defense Department announced on Thursday.
The announcement comes the same week that Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld defended the jail after U.S. lawmakers said it had created an image problem for the United States.
Critics have decried the indefinite detention of Guantanamo detainees, whom the United States has denied rights accorded under the Geneva Conventions to prisoners of war. The prison was called "the gulag of our times" in a recent Amnesty International report.
An air-conditioned two-story prison, known as Detention Camp #6, will be built at Guantanamo to house 220 men. It will include exercise areas, medical and dental spaces as well as a security control room, the contract announcement said.
The contract announcement did not specify whether the new prison would also hold foreign terror suspects.
Under the deal with the Norfolk, Virginia-based U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic, the work is to be wrapped up by July 2006. It is part of a larger contract that could be worth up to $500 million if all options are exercised, the Defense Department said.
The project is to be carried out by Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root Services of Arlington, Virginia. It includes site work, heating ventilation and air conditioning, plumbing and electrical work, the Pentagon said.
The first prisoners arrived at the prison camp in January 2002 after the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacked airliner attacks on New York and the Pentagon.
The Pentagon has said about 520 detainees from more than 40 countries are being held at the prison, without giving a precise figure.
Rumsfeld said on Tuesday U.S. taxpayers had spend more than $100 million on construction costs and no other facility could replace it.
You can't? Okay I will post whole article then.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Halliburton Co. (HAL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) unit will build a new $30 million detention facility and security fence at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the United States is holding about 520 foreign terrorism suspects, the Defense Department announced on Thursday.
The announcement comes the same week that Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld defended the jail after U.S. lawmakers said it had created an image problem for the United States.
Critics have decried the indefinite detention of Guantanamo detainees, whom the United States has denied rights accorded under the Geneva Conventions to prisoners of war. The prison was called "the gulag of our times" in a recent Amnesty International report.
An air-conditioned two-story prison, known as Detention Camp #6, will be built at Guantanamo to house 220 men. It will include exercise areas, medical and dental spaces as well as a security control room, the contract announcement said.
The contract announcement did not specify whether the new prison would also hold foreign terror suspects.
Under the deal with the Norfolk, Virginia-based U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic, the work is to be wrapped up by July 2006. It is part of a larger contract that could be worth up to $500 million if all options are exercised, the Defense Department said.
The project is to be carried out by Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root Services of Arlington, Virginia. It includes site work, heating ventilation and air conditioning, plumbing and electrical work, the Pentagon said.
The first prisoners arrived at the prison camp in January 2002 after the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacked airliner attacks on New York and the Pentagon.
The Pentagon has said about 520 detainees from more than 40 countries are being held at the prison, without giving a precise figure.
Rumsfeld said on Tuesday U.S. taxpayers had spend more than $100 million on construction costs and no other facility could replace it.
not really surprising. Interesting that the "concern" that has been expressed is mainly about "image" .......as opposed to what is actually going on in this US "gulag". (ie humanitarian) USG/Cuba takes on a whole new meaning ......
although not directly related , one has to wonder what goes on in the USG "secret" prisons that are apparently located in various places in the world.... :?:
RE: Halliburton in the Ne
Heads up Lefties. Halliburton will soon be spinning off its KBR subsidiary. Halliburton is going to become just another oil service company. So get into the grove and be hip by adding "KBR" to your lexicon before all your other fellow Lefties!
Heads up Lefties. Halliburton will soon be spinning off its KBR subsidiary. Halliburton is going to become just another oil service company. So get into the grove and be hip by adding "KBR" to your lexicon before all your other fellow Lefties!
Toro: with due respect ( and pardon this diversion).....it seems that putting a crown on bush is a complete disrespect for the REALLY Royalty in Britain. Still suffering from "Royal" envy are ya??
You wanted no part of it since you broke away.....so why are you still so fixated on it???
Maybe this is why celebrities get "crowned" "king of this, Queen of that" -------
idle musingss........ :idea:
******now back to the Halliburton issue, which is spreading it's tentacles in more power grab.
You wanted no part of it since you broke away.....so why are you still so fixated on it???
Maybe this is why celebrities get "crowned" "king of this, Queen of that" -------
idle musingss........ :idea:
******now back to the Halliburton issue, which is spreading it's tentacles in more power grab.