13 July 2011
Please Note: I understand that this is a complicated web, but I advise you to take some time and browse through the links and articles listed on the bottom of this post. If you read the information, you will start to realize how this mess with our money spent on wars, are connected with oil, our government officials, and the contractors.
First Kuwaiti General Trading And Contracting
• founded in 1996, and soon became a go-to subcontractor for Texas-based contractor Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR)
• (2008) given the contract to build the new U.S. embassy in Baghdad, despite lacking experience in embassy construction and entering a bid that was $60 million higher than the lowest bidder. project has been plagued by gross mismanagement, labor mistreatment and shoddy construction work. Cost overruns have raised its ultimate price tag from an original $550 million to upwards of $1 billion. But despite documented evidence of First Kuwaiti’s wrongdoing, State Department Inspector General Howard Kronguard continuously defended the company’s performance and thwarted investigations into the embassy project. (In These Times) (Corp Watch)
• Completed a housing facility for the embassy’s security personnel, but the structure was shut down shortly after it opened. Problems included fuel leaks, dysfunctional appliances, toxic fumes and melted electrical wiring.
• Reports that the company engaged in human trafficking. Workers from the Philippines, India, Nepal and elsewhere claimed the company lured them with the promise of well-paying jobs in Dubai and Kuwait, but instead flew them to Baghdad and confiscated their passports. (Corp Watch) (MTR) (House Reports)
• Bush-appointed State Department inspector general — guess what — has found no evidence of any wrongdoing. (NYT)
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• founded in 1996, and soon became a go-to subcontractor for Texas-based contractor Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR)
• (2008) given the contract to build the new U.S. embassy in Baghdad, despite lacking experience in embassy construction and entering a bid that was $60 million higher than the lowest bidder. project has been plagued by gross mismanagement, labor mistreatment and shoddy construction work. Cost overruns have raised its ultimate price tag from an original $550 million to upwards of $1 billion. But despite documented evidence of First Kuwaiti’s wrongdoing, State Department Inspector General Howard Kronguard continuously defended the company’s performance and thwarted investigations into the embassy project. (In These Times) (Corp Watch)
• Completed a housing facility for the embassy’s security personnel, but the structure was shut down shortly after it opened. Problems included fuel leaks, dysfunctional appliances, toxic fumes and melted electrical wiring.
• Reports that the company engaged in human trafficking. Workers from the Philippines, India, Nepal and elsewhere claimed the company lured them with the promise of well-paying jobs in Dubai and Kuwait, but instead flew them to Baghdad and confiscated their passports. (Corp Watch) (MTR) (House Reports)
• Bush-appointed State Department inspector general — guess what — has found no evidence of any wrongdoing. (NYT)
Related Articles:
Our Tax Dollars at Work
Washington Group Intl.
Orascom
IAP Worldwide Services
Perini Corporation
KBR
L-3 Communications Holdings
Parsons Corp
Environmental Chemical Corp
DYN Corp
Facts About Blackwater
Related Videos:
Armor Group - Tikrit
KBR Video Sex Crimes
Keiser Report-Europe's Neo Feudalism
KBR Prision Camps in Iraq - CNN
Orascom Telecom Ad 2
Halliburton Ad, Message from CEO
The Carlyle Group
5 Kidnapped Contractors
DynCorp in Afhganstan
Working for DynCorp
DynCorp Tax Fund Child Prositition
CEO's of Halliburton and KBR named in Lawsuit
Bondstill Camp - Kosovo
You Pay for Dick Cheney's Activities
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