Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Getting things fixed

Yesterday, I saw Pratap Chatterjee, from CorpWatch on CSPAN. He's researched the money flowing from us to Iraq's supposed reconstruction and the cost of doing war business in a book: Iraq, Inc: A profitable occupation. An auditor recently said to him that if she reported the fraud, her company would lose the contract to provide the audit! He said that one of Halliburton's money making schemes, which they are still running, is to send empty trucks on the supply convoys - 2/3 of the trucks in any given convoy are empty. (One convoy he reported had 26 of 28 trucks with nothing in them.) And the corollary to that is that they send deliveries to outposts where the goods are not requested, so they have to turn around and go back. In other words, they just have trucks roaming around Iraq purposelessly. And this with all the captures and beheadings of truck drivers, who seem to be fairly easy targets.

Halliburton is paid $1,000 per truck.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.



CorpWatch also has a new "alternative" annual report out on Halliburton:

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