Sunday, August 07, 2005

Blood and gravy- how (official) corruption goes on in Iraq with Halliburton. Besides Halliburton's extortion against competitors, its selfish and abominable behavior extends to its own employees, food servers who hail from poorer countries like Turkey and Phillipines. And just to show its evenhandedness, Halliburton treats American soldiers shabbily too, reserving low-quality, spoiled food for them. This other article also highlights the shabby treatment meted out to workers and soldiers as well, just scroll to the middle.
An excerpt:
"In videotaped testimony, Rory Mayberry told the hearing that instead of preparing meals for 600 Turkish and Filipino workers that were appropriate for their cultural practices and religious beliefs, KBR fed them "leftover food in garbage bags and boxes" after US troops had finished eating.
Mayberry said that on some occasions KBR also served "outdated or expired" food to soldiers, and that company bosses told employees not to follow time consuming sanitation rules issued by the military
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KBR is Kellogg Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton.