VOL. XLVI

No 50

15-December-2003

IRAQ

Halliburton Again Accused Of Receiving High Fuel Payments

The US government is paying Halliburton an average of $2.64/gallon to import gasoline and other fuel to Iraq from Kuwait more than twice what others are paying to truck in Kuwaiti fuel, according to US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) documents quoted by The New York Times on 10 December. (Halliburton is charging $1.24/gallon for fuel imported from Turkey, the documents show). Halliburton, which has the...