U.S. Civilian Worker Fatally Shot in Iraq (Halliburton)

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030905/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_worker_killed&cid=540&ncid=1473

HOUSTON - A civilian affiliated with oilfield services giant Halliburton was shot and killed in Iraq, the second person connected to the firm to die in an attack in a month.

The employee, who was not identified, worked for Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root and was assigned to a team supporting Army mail delivery, said Halliburton spokeswoman Wendy Hall.

"The employee was fatally shot this morning in Baghdad," Hall said Wednesday. "Our employee was driving a vehicle that was escorted by military personnel. The employee was evacuated to a nearby combat support hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival."

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[quispquake]

1. Well...

...if the soldier's dying don't matter to these administration jerks, maybe one of their own dying will wake them up...

on second thought, probably not...

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[mbperrin]

2. True....

he doesn't appear to have been part of management!

[Kolesar]

3. Labor Day was Monday

The Bush administration has issued a press release saying that this death happened and they have "moved on".

[Atlant]

6. From "Catch-22"...

1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder: Nately died a wealthy man, Yossarian.
He had over sixty shares in the syndicate.

Yossarian: What difference does that make? He's dead.

1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder: Then his family will get it.

Yossarian: He didn't have time to have a family.

1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder: Then his parents will get it.

Yossarian: They don't need it, they're rich.

1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder: Then they'll understand.

[lanlady]

4. oh, so Halli employees get military escorts

while they're delivering mail to Army personnel? :wtf:

[qb]

7. Privatization at its best

Instead of paying military wages to a soldier to deliver the mail, they pay megabucks to a Halliburton employee to deliver the mail and military wages to several soldiers to guard him.

[Mel]

10. It's called

'milking the tax payers'

[salin]

12. Would love to see how much this 'service' costs ala Haliburton

with the inclusion of the military costs for security for the service, and compare it to what the costs would have been without the privatization.

[shanti]

13. oh, that's rich!

*shaking my head*

[indepat]

8. Wonder if the guy delivering US mail under military escort earns

more than those soldiers escorting him? My guess is several multiples of what the soldier earns with Halliburton also getting a generous additional overhead allowance greater than each of their employees' total payroll costs with not a cent of it ever going being paid in Federal taxes. But what do I know?

[MetaTrope]

5. Peons don't only farm for the junta, they're fertilizer too

:hurts:

[Mel]

9. wonder if

this dead Halliburton employee is the husband of the wife who called into C-Span earlier this week singing the praises of *Bush?

[PATRICK]

11. does this happen all the time

or is this another thought out objective to terrorize privatized who don't have to be there taking risks? It certainly is small potatos to defeating Halliburton. Only the little guys get hurt.

[starroute]

14. Making the soldiers pick up their own mail

I read somewhere recently that the mail wasn't even being delivered to soldiers in certain places. Instead, they have to come in and pick it up themselves -- and this is one reason why the Iraqi resistance has been so successful at setting explosives under the roads to catch American military vehicles.

I guess we can expect from now on to see a lot more of the same.