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Not At My Table - Political Discussions => National & International Politics => Topic started by: Rico on June 21, 2005, 07:58:18 AM
The following article is from June 18th. It would seem one can not go wrong working for Haliburton.... I realize this is not local politics, I hope they do not have to create another section for National...! [8D]
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Halliburton Gets Contract to Build New Prison at Guantánamo
Washington, June 18 (RHC)-- A new, 30 million dollar prison facility and security fence will be built at the US Guantánamo Naval Base -- with the contract going to none other than the Texas-based energy and gas company Halliburton. The announcement by the Pentagon comes the same week that Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld defended the jail after several congressional representatives on Capitol Hill called for its closing.
Critics have denounced the indefinite detention of Guantánamo prisoners, whom the United States has denied rights accorded under the Geneva Conventions to prisoners of war. The jail was also called "the gulag of our times" in a recent Amnesty International report.
According to a statement by the Defense Department, a two-story prison, known as Detention Camp #6, will be built by Halliburton's subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root at Guantánamo. The facility will house 220 men and include exercise areas and a security control room. The contract announcement did not specify whether the new prison would also hold so-called foreign 'terror suspects.'
The Pentagon announcement says that the contract is part of a larger deal worth up to 500 million dollars with the Norfolk, Virginia-based US Naval Facilities Engineering Command. The construction job, which includes site work, plumbing and electrical work, is to be completed by July 2006.