Halliburton Fact Sheet
... Halliburton has earned over $3.9 billion in government contracts in 2003 alone
... This includes combating oil fires and fix oil pipelines: $710 million; support for invading army: $820 million; housing and transportation for troops in Kuwait: $289 million; housing and transportation for troops in Jordan: $40 million; housing and transportation for teams searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq: $40 million
Other Halliburton Contracts
Camp Bondsteel and Camp Monteith in Kosovo: $829.2 million
... Eagle Base and Camp McGovern in Bosnia/Herzegovinia: $695.2 million
... Taszar air base in Hungary: $287.7 million
... Incirlik Airbase in Turkey: $100 million
... Bagram and Kandahar Airbase in Afghanistan: $52.2 million
... Camp Able Century in Macedonia: $30.5 million
... Camp Lemonier in Djibouti: $28 million
... Training mission in Georgia: $25.1 million
... Camp Stronghold Freedom in Uzbekistan: $22.1 million
US Vice-President Dick Cheney, Halliburton's Former CEO
... In 2001 and 2002 Cheney earned twice as much in deferred salary from Halliburton from his previous job as chief executive officer of Halliburton -- $183,000 each year
... He also owns 433,000 unexercised Halliburton stock options at the end of 2002, worth more than $10 million dollars
Halliburton's Pre- and Post- Iraq War Profits
... Halliburton's net profit for the second quarter of 2003: $26 million
... Halliburton net loss the second quarter of 2002: $498 million
In December 2003, the United States Army found Halliburton of overcharging the government by $61 million for fuel transportation and $67 million for food services. The company charged as much as three dollars a gallon for gasoline that local companies were importing for under a dollar.
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