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Sunday, June 19, 2005

interesting....

30 million i can buy but what's the 500 million for?

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/19/politics/19gitmo.html

3 Comments:

Blogger El_Checo said...

dude what 500 the link only mentions 30 ???

9:54 AM  
Blogger ingenium said...

oh, damn, you have to be a member to read the whole link.

oops.

2:21 PM  
Blogger ingenium said...

WASHINGTON, June 18 (AP) - A subsidiary of Halliburton, Kellogg Brown & Root Services, has been awarded $30 million to build a 220-bed prison for terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the Pentagon announced Friday.

The prison is to include day rooms, exercise areas and medical bays, air-conditioning and a security control room, the Pentagon said. It is to be completed by July 2006.

The prison "is designed to be safer for the long-term detention of detainees and the guards," said a statement provided by a Pentagon spokesman. "It is also expected to require less manpower to operate."

The job is part of a larger contract that could be worth up to $500 million through 2010, the Pentagon said.

Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey, criticized the deal, calling Halliburton the "scandal-plagued former employer of Vice President Cheney."

2:22 PM  

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