VOL. XLVII

No 02

12-January-2004

IRAQ

USACE Waives Requirement For Halliburton To Provide Price Of Kuwaiti Gasoline

The head of the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Lt Gen Robert Flowers, has signed a 19 December ruling stating that Halliburton had provided data indicating that it had supplied Kuwaiti gasoline to Iraq at a fair and reasonable price. USACE appears to lay the blame for the excessive costs of the gasoline on the Kuwaiti government, which allowed the fuel purchase from only one...