(VIDEO) KBR/Halliburton Slave-like Camps in Iraq
WASHINGTON: A civilian employee of US oil services giant Halliburton and government contractor KBR has charged in a lawsuit the companies exposed thousands of workers to unhealthy, contaminated conditions at an Iraqi military base.
The suit includes a long list of charges against Halliburton and KBR — formerly known as Kellogg Brown & Root, a former subsidiary of Halliburton and the US military’s chief provider in Iraq.
Halliburton, once led by Vice President Dick Cheney before he took office in 2001, and KBR have come under scrutiny for contract controversies since Halliburton was awarded a no-bid 2.4 billion dollar contract to supply the US military just before the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.
KBR agreed last year to pay the US government eight million dollars to settle fraud claims related to an army supply contract.
