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Seven Halliburton employees were among the those killed in deadly bomb attack on a U.S. military installation in Mosul yesterday, a company spokeswoman said. "We regret to confirm the death of four KBR employees and three subcontractors who were killed by multiple explosions in Mosul," spokeswoman Wendy Hall told reporters. "This is a grueling and difficult development." Kellogg, Brown & Root [KBR] is a Halliburton subsidiary. The new deaths bring the number of Halliburton employees killed while attempting to deliver goods and services to U.S. troops and coalition forces in Iraq to 62. Despite the extraordinary human sacrifice by a...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Halliburton's (NYSE:HAL - news) engineering and construction unit KBR expects its billing dispute over meals for U.S. troops in Iraq (news - web sites) to be settled soon, a senior KBR executive said on Tuesday. "We expect a decision in the not too distant future," Alfred Neffgen, KBR's chief operating officer for government operations for the Americas told reporters. "It's a big issue for us." About $160 million in payments has been withheld for the under the food services agreement in KBR's LOGCAP (Logistics Civil Augmentation Program) contract with the Pentagon (news - web sites), pending a...

"U.S. Labor Against the War" (USLAW) and other anti-Halliburton unions ask American workers to contribute money to Iraqi Labor Movement.

Labor Unions of "U. S. Labor Against the War" (known as USLAW) declare "Million Worker March" in Washington, D.C. on October 17 as "fully consistent" with the their anti-Halliburton/KBR, anti-war mission. And what is USLAW's mission?.....

Halliburton/KBR is a long-time adversary of organized labor...and now Halliburton/KBR stands in the way of union expansion into Iraq. Halliburton owns Kellogg Brown & Root (KB&R) which is coming under fire by the Democrats. Since its origin in Houston, Texas during World War II, Brown & Root has successfully battled attempts to disrupt Brown & Root operations in the United States and throughout the world. It's interesting to note that a coalition of U. S. unions have formed a coaliton which they call "U. S. Labor Against the War", along with a task force called the "Labor Solidarity Task Force...

...By sheer force of repetition the vague accusations hurled at Halliburton have unfairly dragged the company's good name down to the level of Enron. It's an article of faith among Democrats that Vice President Dick Cheney, who was Halliburton's CEO from 1995-2000, is somehow funneling contracts its way and is being compensated by the company for these services.... Mr. Cheney had to forfeit millions of dollars worth of stock options to avoid any conflict of interest. And he has zero control or even input regarding Halliburton's Defense contracts. But the attacks have gone on for so long despite no evidence...

In one home, a group of American soldiers made a surprising discovery: Yaltchin Kaya, a Turkish truck driver kidnapped about two weeks ago by insurgents. The Americans found him when they snapped the padlock on a stifling room. He had worked for KBR, the American military contractor. "Chalk one up for the good guys," said Specialist Jess Escamillas of the Army.

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 September 27, 2004Release Number: 04-09-83 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE IRAQI NATIONAL GUARD SOLDIERS THWART HIJACKING ATTEMPT TIKRIT, Iraq – Soldiers from the 203rd Iraqi National Guard Battalion thwarted a hijacking attempt by anti-Iraqi forces near Ad Dujayl at about 3:45 p.m. Sept. 27. The 203rd was conducting a patrol along a main supply route when the soldiers saw anti-Iraqi forces attempting to hijack a vehicle in which six Turkish nationals were riding. The Turkish nationals are employees of a Kellogg Brown...

Shawn Baldwin for The New York Times Tankers near Nasiriya, Iraq, wait to load their fuel before making deliveries to American military bases. SAFWAN, Iraq - They go by names like Mac Daddy, Milkman and Tango One. When a snaking convoy of 18-wheelers is moving smoothly, they are cadillackin'. And when word crackles on the radio that the lead truck has passed from another impossibly rutted, kidney-bruising dirt road onto a stretch of asphalt, they are about to hit the hardball. A few months ago, many of the truckers were driving for companies like Chick-fil-A and Office Depot. Now,...

HOUSTON, Sept. 23 - When Halliburton was awarded contracts worth more than $12 billion for work in Iraq, critics said that the company was using its political connections to reap big profits. But now, in a sign that those contracts are not providing the boon executives had expected from a subsidiary weighed down by other problems, Halliburton said Thursday that it was considering a sale of the business. The unit, KBR, which provides military and oil field services, has been plagued by losses, by investigations into its activities in Nigeria and Iran and by sizable asbestos claims. Making matters worse,...

TO: All KBR employees FROM: Andy Lane, president and CEO, KBR SUBJECT: Update on our work in Iraq & Our Unsung Heroes Last week I visited our KBR teams on the ground in Iraq and Kuwait, and I'd like to take this opportunity to update you on the issues we face in the Middle East. The U.S. military casualties in the war are approaching 1,000. As a civilian company, we have paid an extremely high price in human terms. We've experienced the devastating loss of 45 of our colleagues who have died in the Iraq war, 121 have been wounded,...

On April 11, 2004, I was in St. Sharbel  Parish in Warren, Michigan, when I saw Tommy Hamill on the TV. It was Easter. Tommy Hamill was kidnapped on  April 9, 2004. It was Good Friday. “This was out of my hand. I trusted that God would work this out.” Tommy said. When I saw this guy, I felt like fire in my heart to pray for his freedom.I started praying asking the Lord on his day of resurrection to deliver this man from his captors: “Lord, as you set Peter free from the prison,I believe that you can set Tommy free.”  His...

Once called mercenaries, highly trained killers have offered their deadly services for a price--from ancient Rome to the War on Terror. Today, they've marched from the back pages of "Soldier of Fortune" to form vast corporations with the power of the most advanced militaries. The payday for these private soldiers has reached $100-billion annually! Unregulated by governing forces, they wage war for those who can afford it. Find out if they are the future of conflict resolution in our 2-hour special.

Here is some news from my best friend who is presently in Camp Anaconda. My best friend arrived in camp last Saturday. he has called his wife outside of Dallas twice a day (morning and night) every day since he arrived ... except today. She said she's a little worried. My friend Dave ... though not a Freeper ... is a conservative committed completed Marine (no such thing as an Ex or former Marine) who is working for Halliburton as a contractor in Iraq. He says that the base has been shelled evry day since he has been there. He...

Forty-one employees of the embattled energy services company Halliburton have been killed in Iraq and Kuwait since the company became the U.S.'s primary contractor in the Iraq rebuilding effort last year. Halliburton's sacrifice in human terms is higher, for instance, than the entire British army's - which has the second largest military presence in Iraq. Twenty-seven British soldiers have killed since the occupation began on May 1, 2003. Despite suffering a staggering death toll, Hallburton's contribution to the war effort has been derided by the Democratic-media complex as war profiteering. When a Halliburton employee is killed, kidnapped or injured in...

U.S. Kills 20 Foreign Fighters in Iraq, Official Says By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN Published: June 23, 2004 BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 23 — Up to 20 foreign fighters were killed overnight during an American military strike on a house in the city of Falluja, a senior military official said today. The assault came after Muslim insurgents beheaded a South Korean hostage and threatened to assassinate the Iraqi prime minister. "Falluja has become a place where large numbers of foreign fighters remain," a senior military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters in Baghdad. "We are concerned about this. We don't know...

(URGENT) American and European Hostages Held Hostage: Company Head BAGHDAD, June 21 (Yonhap) -- European journalists and American workers are being held hostage along with the South Korean kidnap victim by an armed Arab insurgent group, the head of a South Korean trade company here said Monday. In a telephone interview with the Yonhap News Agency, Kim Choon-ho, head of Gana General Trading Co., at which the South Korean kidnap victim Kim Sun-il has been working, said that there were some 10 other foreign figures being held hostage by the insurgent group. The South Korean president of the Iraq-based...

MAIN SUPPLY ROUTE TAMPA, Iraq — The radio inside Sgt. Jim Tomlinson’s armored Humvee chatters out details of a firefight along the road up ahead. The infantryman calls to Spc. Stephen Lord, the machine gunner up top, to be alert. “A unit is taking small arms fire, engaging the enemy on both sides,” Tomlinson yells. “51 Alpha.” Lord knows what that means. Tomlinson’s words, 51 Alpha, refer to an overpass along the highway just inside Baghdad’s North End. A roadside bomb that insurgents planted there recently earned Lord a Purple Heart when it exploded above the 19-year-old generator mechanic from...

Please indulge me for posting this long letter from Iraq; it's the "real deal" and is full of valuable information. Info from Iraq From Someone who is Doing the Run and Gun Yesterday a friend of mine who runs a small security company here in Iraq emailed me. He is standing up a protection detail and wanted my opinion on tactics and equipment running the roads of Iraq; Tactics, SOP's, hard car or soft? I have been giving it some thought and here is where I am at. I am willing to speculate I’m as well traveled in Iraq as...

BAGHDAD - In an early test of its imminent sovereignty, Iraq's new government has been resisting a U.S. demand that thousands of foreign contractors be granted immunity from Iraqi law, in the same way as U.S. military forces are now immune, according to Iraqi sources. The U.S. proposal, although not widely known, has touched a nerve with some nationalist-minded Iraqis already chafing under the 14-month-old U.S.-led occupation. If accepted by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, it would put the highly visible U.S. foreign contractors into a special legal category, not subject to military justice and beyond the reach of Iraq's justice...