Iraq after Halliburton: corporate giant's contract is discontinued

The Pentagon today announced that it is discontinuing it multimillion dollar contract with oil services giant, Halliburton. This exclusive contract was scrutinized by watchdogs, who complained that the politically connected corporation was profiting off of the war, at the expense of the US taxpayer and Iraq itself.
This is an interview with Pratap Chatterjee, author of "Iraq, Inc." and Director of CorpWatch. CorpWatch has published "alternative annual reports" on Haliburton for the past three years, highlighting the corporation's misdeeds.

The Pentagon today announced that it is discontinuing it multimillion dollar contract with oil services giant, Halliburton. This exclusive contract was scrutinized by watchdogs, who complained that the politically connected corporation was profiting off of the war, at the expense of the US taxpayer and Iraq itself.

This is an interview with Pratap Chatterjee, author of "Iraq, Inc." and Director of CorpWatch. CorpWatch has published "alternative annual reports" on Haliburton for the past three years, highlighting the corporation's misdeeds.

Read CorpWatch's analysis at www.corpwatch.org.