Reply #6: another $25 million, I'm guessing to KBR/Halliburton?

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KBR = Kellogg, Brown & Root = Halliburton's construction division/subsidiary

I'm not that 'up' on this ... just googling and joggling my memory ... but, how many times are they going to award contracts to Halliburton/KBR, or any other corporation, to build at Guantanamo?

from a cache Miami Herald article dated August 24, 2003

"NO-BID CONTRACTS

The contractor is Kellogg, Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, Texas-based Halliburton. The watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense says the subsidiary received $1.3 billion in government business last year -- much of it, like this, without having to enter a bid.

Halliburton referred questions to Navy public affairs officer John Peters, who said via e-mail that Camp Five will have about 24,000 square feet when completed in mid-2004. It was part of a $25 million task order issued June 6."

http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:-3MODGsM95EJ:www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/6604462.htm+%2425+million+contract+detention+cells++2003+&hl=en

this site has the Herald's article, but titles it "Camp Five"
http://www.backspace.com/notes/2003/09/15/x.html

Waxman continued, "Halliburton appears to be one of the main companies profiting from the war on terror. In May 2001, Brown & Root was awarded a five-year, $300 million contract to provide logistical support to the Navy. As of August 2002, the Navy had reportedly given Brown & Root $53 million in work orders over the past 15 months, including $37 million to build detention cells at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where terrorist suspects captured in Afghanistan are being held."

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0503/05273db.htm


As of April 9, 2002, construction of Camp Delta had already been approved and funded with construction having already begun at Radio Range, approximately five miles from Camp X-Ray. Construction of the new detention facility officially began on February 27, 2002. The first 408 new detention units were completed by the middle of April, and done by Brown & Root Services, as well as Navy SeaBees and Marine engineers.

~snip~

Camp 5
Camp 5 differs from other camps at Camp Delta in that it is a multi-winged complex made of concrete and steel. It cost $31 million to build, is designed to hold 100 detainees and was opened in May 2004.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/guantanamo-bay_delta.htm

Judged By The Company You Keep
By Diana Rogers

05/21/03:

HALLIBURTON; Kellogg, Brown and Root/KBR (Subsidiary)

Awarded $7 Billion-Umbrella (without set limits) US contract for Iraq (2003). Awarded a $9.7 million US contract to build an additional 204-cell detention camp at the US Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The exclusive logistics provider for US Navy and Army with a 10-yr No Lid and No Cost US contract, already estimated at $830 Million. Paid $2 million by US to reinforce the U.S. embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Awarded $2.2 Billion US contract to support US troops in the Balkans. Awarded US contracts totaling more than $624 Million from October 2000 to March 2003."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3482.htm

Cong. Waxman's letter to Rumsfeld dated April 30, 2003
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/Waxman2Rummy.html


perhaps the detainees are only a smoke screen to build a base from which to launch an invasion of Cuba? sounds familiar from the 60s, except we were monitoring the then Soviet Union activities, which we saw as a threat to our security ~ or, simply, boondoggle raid on our tax dollars (par for the course)

a $1.7 million psychiatric wing ???