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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (508128)	12/11/2003 9:35:51 PM
From: Bob	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

You people with your nooses out, seem to be an awful lot of "may's" A Pentagon (news - web sites) audit of Halliburton, the oil services firm once run by Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites), has found that a Kuwaiti subcontractor may have overcharged it as much as $61 million for fuel brought into Iraq (news - web sites), U.S. defense officials said on Thursday. Halliburton's Kellogg Brown and Root unit, which won a no-bid U.S. government contract to rebuild Iraq's oil industry in March, may have been paying the Kuwaiti company as much as $2.20 per gallon for unleaded gasoline, compared with $1.18 in other contracts, a senior defense official said. So it's a Kuwaiti company charging the price of 2.20 KBR is not suspected of improperly pocketing any taxpayer funds in either case but may have failed to ensure that its subcontractors performed as required, defense officials said. KBR has defended its pricing by citing the high cost of security in a dangerous environment and a shortage of trucks. story.news.yahoo.com And you people are so full of it that you would do this job for the money they are making.