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Halliburton to build new $30 mln Guantanamo jail
Yahoo ^ | June 16, 2005 | Reuters

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: buildanoveninstead; civiliancontractors; detainees; dod; gitmo; halliburton; kbr; norfolk; usn
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what timing.......!!!
1 posted on 06/16/2005 4:39:17 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

This is excellent news!


2 posted on 06/16/2005 4:39:52 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Do Cats and Dogs know that they are going to die someday?)
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To: Sub-Driver

And it even includes air conditioning. Some gulag.


3 posted on 06/16/2005 4:40:00 PM PDT by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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To: Sub-Driver; Mo1; kcvl; Fudd Fan

This ought to push them right over the edge.............ROFLMAO!


4 posted on 06/16/2005 4:40:38 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Sub-Driver

Oh, the irony!!!


5 posted on 06/16/2005 4:40:46 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Extraordinary Circumstances- proving PT Barnum was right..)
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To: Sub-Driver

All the urinals will come equipped with their own picture of Senator Dick "Dhimmi" Durbin.


6 posted on 06/16/2005 4:41:10 PM PDT by Argus (Omnia taglinea in tres partes divisa est.)
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To: SamAdams76

This is excellent news!
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Think how many DUmmie threads this will be worth.


7 posted on 06/16/2005 4:41:33 PM PDT by JLS
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To: Howlin

That was my first thought too. I hope someone keeps an eye on DUmmieland, it should be a riot.


8 posted on 06/16/2005 4:41:46 PM PDT by cripplecreek (I zot trolls for fun and profit.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I have never loved Halliburton as much as I do now =)


9 posted on 06/16/2005 4:41:51 PM PDT by thoughtomator (The U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government)
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To: Sub-Driver

Looks like someone in the Gov is taking the Islamofascist threat seriously.


10 posted on 06/16/2005 4:41:53 PM PDT by marty60
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To: Sub-Driver
AWESOME
11 posted on 06/16/2005 4:41:58 PM PDT by tiredoflaundry (I hate Hurricane Season!)
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To: cripplecreek

Ain't life grand??


12 posted on 06/16/2005 4:42:28 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Sub-Driver

They'll complain it doesn't have turn down services. LOL.


13 posted on 06/16/2005 4:42:42 PM PDT by phoenix0468 (http://www.mylocalforum.com -- Go Speak Your Mind.)
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My HAL stock is doing ok..hope this was one of those cost plus no bid deals..chuckle..


14 posted on 06/16/2005 4:43:39 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Howlin

ROFLMBO ... This just tooo much .. LOL!!!


15 posted on 06/16/2005 4:43:44 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: Sub-Driver

This will get 'em going. LOL!!!


16 posted on 06/16/2005 4:44:02 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Delenda est Liberalism!)
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To: phoenix0468

Another way to look at it is that Haliburton is just doing jobs that most americans won't do.


17 posted on 06/16/2005 4:44:19 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: cripplecreek

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.


18 posted on 06/16/2005 4:44:24 PM PDT by Maceman (The Qur'an is Qur'ap.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Excellent!


19 posted on 06/16/2005 4:44:44 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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OMG, this is hysterical. Must be making the Dems' heads spin.


20 posted on 06/16/2005 4:44:48 PM PDT by P.O.E.
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