Halliburton tastes its own medicine.

[JDPriestly]

Halliburton's senior executive in Iraq accused private security companies of operating a "mafia" to artifically inflate their "outrageous prices", according to a US cable.

Written by a senior diplomat in the US's Basra office, the confidential document discloses the tensions between private security firms, oil companies and the Iraqi government as coalition forces withdraw from protecting foreign business interests.

John Naland, head of the provincial reconstruction team in Basra, wrote in January this year that several oil company representatives complained of "unwarranted high prices" given an improving security situation since 2008.

"Halliburton Iraq country manager decried a 'mafia' of these companies and their 'outrageous' prices, and said that they also exaggerate the security threat.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/21/wikileaks-cables-iraq-security-firms

Halliburton has profited from contracts with the US government for which it was the only bidder -- some possibly no-bid contracts. Who knows how little the services and good that Halliburton provides could be obtained if our military provided them for itself or if there were actual competition for the contracts that Halliburton has gotten.

Yet Halliburton has the nerve to complain about the prices and sales pitches of competing security firms in Iraq. What nerve?

[DCKit]

1. The shark screams as his profits are being trimmed by all the feeder fishies.

Jebus, did they really think that, with trillions of swirling dollars and zero accountability, nobody else would be compteting?

[barbtries]

2. why yes

they did really think that. and they have the answer for it as we see. scream bloody murder. hypocritical warmongering thieving motherfuckers.