Wednesday, March 12, 2003|
Here's a tidbit from Reuters - A Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) has won the contract to oversee any firefighting operations at Iraqi oilfields after any U.S.-led invasion, a Defense Department source said on Thursday. Halliburton does extensive logistic support work for the U.S. military.
Does the name Halliburton sound familiar? Remember a guy named Dick Cheney? The VP? Vice President Dick Cheney served as Halliburton's chief executive officer from 1995 to 2000. His extensive holdings are in a "blind trust" so there's no chance of a conflict of interest. Still . . . you think it's coincidence |
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A story by Washington Post writer Joby Warrick says that a key piece of evidence linking Iraq to a nuclear weapons program appears to have been fabricated. The United Nations' chief nuclear inspector's report called into question U.S. and British claims about Iraq's secret nuclear ambitions. The Post story says documents that purportedly showed Iraqi officials shopping for uranium in Africa two years ago were deemed "not authentic" after careful scrutiny by U.N. and independent experts, Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told the U.N. Security Council. ElBaradei reported finding no evidence of banned weapons or nuclear material in an extensive sweep of Iraq using advanced radiation detectors. "There is no indication of resumed nuclear activities," ElBaradei said.
But that's just one man's opinion. |
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