2 Halliburton subcontractors killed in Iraq

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2353858

Two Halliburton Co. subcontractors were killed and one company employee was injured today, when their convoy was ambushed near Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, company officials confirmed.

Halliburton officials declined to identify the victims, pending notification of relatives. The workers were part of a team providing logistical support for the U.S. military in Iraq.

Last week, a driver was killed in a similar ambush, the Associated Press reported. A Halliburton spokeswoman said "several" workers have been killed or wounded in Iraq.

[izzie]

1. Bet the family gets more than PFC Smith's family gets.

Find out and dare CNN and Fox to put that on. Or I think I will just dare CNN to find out.

[Flagg]

2. so sad.......

[saigon68]

6. "BRING EM ON" shouted the BIG DICK (Cheney)

My blind trust overfloweth.

[RapidCreek]

3. yea golly...what a shame

Anything for Dicks portfolio.

RC

[PATRICK]

4. Future targets

Any selected officials who will sit in the puppet government. They can't protect them all. Someday someone will find a way to hit the "safe zone". No wonder Bremer is fleeing his glorious viceroy position. he doesn't want to go down nobly like Joseph Bonaparte did in Mexico.

[rustydog]

5. Apparently, Cheny discovered they were charging a FAIR price for gas

and he had them killed.

[el_gato]

7. when you play with fire

sometimes you get burned

these people were fools for being there

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. Will everybody agree that the intensity of the counter-attacks has

heighten SINCE we captured Sadaam?

[RamboLiberal]

10. And did anyone note we did not see this story anywhere

just a little blurb in the Houston newspaper.

[Judi Lynn]

11. You're right. It hasn't shown up anywhere else,

and the Houston article was so small it could easily have been missed.

Makes you wonder how many other incidents have slipped by without any notice at all.

[psychopomp]

26. No, it hasn't

Check lunaville.org for the facts.

[Richardo]

9. Anybody ever try to reconstruct a house that is still on fire?

That's what these subcontractors are trying to do. A friend of the family is over there now, and every time I see one of these news stories it recharges my anger at RoveCo. :grr:

[DUreader]

12. Construction? What is "logistical support" for the US Military?

Mercenaries are also reffered to as contractors these days›

[Richardo]

19. Well the guy I know is just trying to get the phone system up...

...he's not a mercenary.

[Bozita]

13. "providing logistical support" -- What does that mean?

[Barrett808]

14. Ted Rall: The Hero of Halliburton Hill

http://www.ucomics.com/rallcom/2003/08/14/

[Ganja Ninja]

18. What manner of men are these who give their last full measure...

of devotion to the BFEE. Greater love hath no man then that he lay down his life for the enrichment of others.

[lovedems]

15. I bet these god damn idiots go to THOSE funerals. To busy robbing the

american people to go to a funeral for the troops who have died.

[indepat]

16. How sad, but unlike soldiers, mercenaries are handsomely paid to

operate in a hostile environment.

[daleo]

17. Two more who had to die for oil

Although at least they had a choice about being there.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

20. an American has to be an idiot to work in Iraq for OIL Profiteers

Will this become a revolving door of corporate oil workers?
-they lose some they'll send some more
-they lose some more, they send replacements.
THESE ATTACKS will likely never stop. EVER.
We kill a few resistors and a few more pop up to defend their land from the occupying invaders.

What a fine opportunity for fine young businessmen!
Carpetbaggers !!!!

We can't expect the Iraqis to sit quietly as the U.S. Corporations pump the very life from their country.
This is robbery and we can expect them to treat those companies as criminal enterprises.
(the only way they can)

No one has any intention of ever giving one penny of the oil profits to the "Iraqi people".

Has someone else's country become a downhome fishin' hole for U.S. contractors?
If they're lookin' to catch a big one I'll bet they will!


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[aquart]

21. Or desperate for a job he can't get at home.

There was a story in the news about one of their truck drivers.

He couldn't afford to turn down the money.

[lostnfound]

23. BINGO! I know someone over there working for KBR (Halliburton)..

The job market isn't what it used to be. He's got a desk job and pretty good pay.

I don't understand how anyone can do it..ethically I'm totally 100% opposed..but it is interesting to hear a bit of the inside scoop.

[cliss]

22. I think it's sad, too. It's tragic when life is lost.

However.....I think these people knew what they were getting themselves into. They most assuredly knew that Iraq is one of the most dangerous places on earth for Americans right now.

I heard that salaries are extremely generous; $200,000 per year, plus incentives, bonuses, living expenses.

I just hope they had a good term life insurance policy.

[lostnfound]

24. My friend gets $55K plus overtime.. he used to make $70K+ in the US..

but the job market in our industry has plummeted.

[The_Casual_Observer]

25. Two no-names get snuffed shrug

A couple of nobody "contractors". The whole gd world is filled with faceless contractors, extras in bushes little movie.