Posted on 06/16/2005 4:39:17 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
17 minutes ago
A Halliburton Co. unit will build a new $30 million detention facility and security fence at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the United States is holding about 520 foreign terrorism suspects, the Defense Department announced on Thursday.
The announcement comes the same week that Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld defended the jail after U.S. lawmakers said it had created an image problem for the United States.
Critics have decried the indefinite detention of Guantanamo detainees, whom the United States has denied rights accorded under the Geneva Conventions to prisoners of war. The prison was called "the gulag of our times" in a recent Amnesty International report.
An air-conditioned two-story prison, known as Detention Camp #6, will be built at Guantanamo to house 220 men. It will include exercise areas, medical and dental spaces as well as a security control room, the contract announcement said.
The contract announcement did not specify whether the new prison would also hold foreign terror suspects.
Under the deal with the Norfolk, Virginia-based U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Atlantic, the work is to be wrapped up by July 2006. It is part of a larger contract that could be worth up to $500 million if all options are exercised, the Defense Department said.
The project is to be carried out by Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root Services of Arlington, Virginia. It includes site work, heating ventilation and air conditioning, plumbing and electrical work, the Pentagon said.
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This is excellent news!
And it even includes air conditioning. Some gulag.
This ought to push them right over the edge.............ROFLMAO!
Oh, the irony!!!
All the urinals will come equipped with their own picture of Senator Dick "Dhimmi" Durbin.
This is excellent news!
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Think how many DUmmie threads this will be worth.
That was my first thought too. I hope someone keeps an eye on DUmmieland, it should be a riot.
I have never loved Halliburton as much as I do now =)
Looks like someone in the Gov is taking the Islamofascist threat seriously.
Ain't life grand??
They'll complain it doesn't have turn down services. LOL.
My HAL stock is doing ok..hope this was one of those cost plus no bid deals..chuckle..
ROFLMBO ... This just tooo much .. LOL!!!
This will get 'em going. LOL!!!
Another way to look at it is that Haliburton is just doing jobs that most americans won't do.
No thread there yet. I guess the DUmmies haven't heard about it yet. Poor bastards. Always the last to know what's going on.
OMG, this is hysterical. Must be making the Dems' heads spin.
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