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...months because of repeated insurgent attacks. Despite all this, Halliburton pushed Iraq's oil production back to prewar levels of 2 million bbl. a day in December, three months ahead of schedule, and delivered 1.8 billion liters of fuel via 700 trucks on the road daily in Iraq and Kuwait...
Whistle-blowers say inefficiency is encouraged by the nature of Halliburton's cost-plus contract, which ensures that the company will be repaid for expenses. Henry Bunting, 59, a former Army staff sergeant in Vietnam, handled procurement contracts for Halliburton from a base in Kuwait. He says he was actively discouraged from bidding. "We were not looking for the best price," Bunting told TIME. "The supervisors said time and again, 'Don't worry about the price. Halliburton will get reimbursed.'" Disgusted, Bunting quit and went home last summer. He testified before Congress in February on Iraqi contract practices. A Halliburton...
Halliburton, which provides counseling in Iraq and vacation leaves every four months, says fewer than 1% of its 24,000 employees have asked to come home. After the Easter attacks, CEO Dave Lesar visited 1,200 workers in Kuwait, but by then scores of drivers had asked to come home. Heering is now working with his father-in-law in construction. His past-due bills are paid, but there's nothing for college. Although he is angry and anxious, Heering hasn't called about counseling. Come fall, he plans to vote for George Bush, but he has harsh words...
...written about the World War II generation as being the greatest generation. But he said it's this generation right now that is the next greatest generation." Some soldiers, however, wonder whether he was telling them the truth or just what he thought they want to hear. Dispatched to Kuwait and waiting for the signal to invade in the winter of 2003, soldiers who heard about the millions of antiwar marchers in the streets wondered how they would be viewed when they came home. In the midst of the prison-abuse scandal, the concern emerges again. "Now we wonder what...
...death while the U.S. military continues to deny it ever had custody of Berg. After he was released, the U.S. consulate offered to arrange for him to fly out of Baghdad, but he refused. Instead, he told friends and family that he planned to drive to Kuwait or Turkey. On April 10, he checked out of Baghdad's Al-Fanar Tower Hotel, suitcase in hand, and disappeared. U.S. soldiers found his decapitated body a month later...