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2005-11-05 International-UN-NGOs

UN audit says Halliburton overcharged Iraq

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Posted by phil_b 2005-11-05 03:47|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 looks to me as if KBR did not pay the usual oil bribe money to the UN and now they are angry.

Posted by 49 pan 2005-11-05 08:45|| 2005-11-05 08:45|| Front Page Top

#2 There have been a couple of audit reviews, done routinely, which identifies expenditures which the US government finds were not in line with the open contract that Haliburton has. Its normal operating procedure. That gets big play in the MSM, but the point that its done regularly to verify expenditures is not. We have our own auditors. We check. If there is a problem on the company's part, it has to payback.

Now the 'inflated prices or shoddy work' complaint is most amusing coming from the Oil-for-Bribes people. Instead of folding tents and keeping a low profile for a couple of years, they've got to get attention. Their problem is that they're not going to like the attention they're about to get.

Posted by Ulomolet Slitch1727 2005-11-05 09:10|| 2005-11-05 09:10|| Front Page Top

#3 The UN is now in the financial auditing business...whahahahhhaa. What an opportunity for somebody to tell them to go get ***ked! They absolutely have NO SHAME.

Posted by Besoeker 2005-11-05 10:20|| 2005-11-05 10:20|| Front Page Top

#4 The results of the audit should allow the Iraqi government "the right to go back to K.B.R. (Kellogg, Brown and Root) and say, 'Look, you've overbilled me on this, this is what you could repay me,'" a board member was quoted as saying by the paper.

Can the Iraqi government do the same with the UN in re OFF?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-11-05 11:00|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-11-05 11:00|| Front Page Top

#5 United Nothing with kofi da comedian..

Posted by Dutchgeek 2005-11-05 11:15|| 2005-11-05 11:15|| Front Page Top

#6 They needed to pay for the earthquake/tsunami machine somehow.

Posted by Brett 2005-11-05 11:58|| 2005-11-05 11:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Lemme get this straight - a UN auditing board? The same organization that allowed the Oil for Palac...er, Food scandal to happen?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-11-05 12:27|| 2005-11-05 12:27|| Front Page Top

#8 They don't want Michael Moore to get moore return on his Halliburton stocks.

Posted by 3dc 2005-11-05 13:07|| 2005-11-05 13:07|| Front Page Top

#9 pot meet kettle

Posted by anonymous2u 2005-11-05 13:09|| 2005-11-05 13:09|| Front Page Top

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