Halliburton Scores Another

[Rico]

The following article is from June 18th. It would seem one can not go wrong working for Haliburton....

I realize this is not local politics, I hope they do not have to create another section for National...! [8D]

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Halliburton Gets Contract to Build New Prison at Guantánamo

Washington,  June 18 (RHC)-- A new, 30 million dollar prison facility and security fence will  be built at the US Guantánamo Naval Base -- with the contract going to  none other than the Texas-based energy and gas company Halliburton. The announcement  by the Pentagon comes the same week that Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense  Secretary Donald Rumsfeld defended the jail after several congressional representatives  on Capitol Hill called for its closing.

Critics have denounced the indefinite  detention of Guantánamo prisoners, whom the United States has denied rights  accorded under the Geneva Conventions to prisoners of war. The jail was also called  "the gulag of our times" in a recent Amnesty International report.

According to a statement by the Defense Department, a two-story prison, known  as Detention Camp #6, will be built by Halliburton's subsidiary Kellogg, Brown  and Root at Guantánamo. The facility will house 220 men and include exercise  areas and a security control room. The contract announcement did not specify whether  the new prison would also hold so-called foreign 'terror suspects.'

The  Pentagon announcement says that the contract is part of a larger deal worth up  to 500 million dollars with the Norfolk, Virginia-based US Naval Facilities Engineering  Command. The construction job, which includes site work, plumbing and electrical  work, is to be completed by July 2006.