Kellogg Brown & Root can force Uncle Sam to produce records on the Army's alleged failure to provide force protection for KBR logistical services workers in Iraq, a federal judge ruled.
KBR could face civil penalties of more than $300 million, on the United States' claims that it billed the federal government more than $100 million for private security contractors it hired.
The government says its LOGCAP III contracts with KBR prohibited the use of such contractors.
U.S. Chief Judge Royce Lamberth ruled on Aug. 31 that he would allow discovery, after dismissing, in April, the contractor's argument that the federal government failed to provide adequate security.
KBR also asked the government to identify which KBR claims it believes are false, by releasing the invoices, and it sought documents relating to government contracts with other contractors in Iraq, and their relations with private security firms.
Lamberth ruled that the government already has released information relating to the specific claims in question, and that the government's relationship with other contractors is not KBR's business.
"The court is inclined to grant, with limitations, KBR's motion to compel the production of evidence relating to the United States' force protection obligations to KBR and its subsidiaries under LOGCAP III," Lamberth wrote. "Although this court has dismissed KBR's counterclaim, the United States' compliance (or lack thereof) with its force protection obligations under LOGCAP III may be relevant to whether it was reasonable for KBR to charge for [private security contractors]. However, such discovery
Showing posts with label Iraq war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq war. Show all posts
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Sweden 'helped US bomb Iraq in 2003': report
Holy crap. The Vets brains were impacted by the concuss from a bunker busters, not from any IED by the "insurgents"(which can't be good either)
or it was this
Massive Ordnance Penetrator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_Ordnance_Penetrator
Can Boeing be sued for this?
or it was this
Massive Ordnance Penetrator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_Ordnance_Penetrator
Can Boeing be sued for this?
According to a report in the Expressen newspaper, which obtained previously classified documents from the US military's Central Command, a Swedish intelligence agency helped US war planners determine which targets to hit in a bombing raid to be carried out in March 2003.
Specifically, the US military was interested in learning more about Swedish-built bunkers in the Iraqi capital as the Pentagon suspected that one bunker, which was officially a safe room for civilians, may have also been used by the Iraqi military or the country's leaders.
The document explains that the US military obtained data about the bunkers through "intelligence exchanged with Sweden and the U.S.".
Last autumn, Expressen reported that high-ranking US military experts made a secret visit to Sweden in January/February 2003 to meet with officials from Swedish military intelligence agency MUST, reportedly to discuss the bunkers.
The revelations prompted a Swedish prosecutor to launch a preliminary investigation into whether a single
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Tutu urges trial for Blair and Bush over Iraq
The "World" demands answers
And history, supports the "Worlds" request
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for British ex-prime minister Tony Blair and former US president George W Bush to face trial in The Hague for their role in the Iraq war.
The South African peace icon, writing in Sunday's Observer newspaper, accused the pair of lying about weapons of mass destruction and said the invasion left the world more destabilised and divided "than any other conflict in history".
Tutu argued that different standards appeared to apply for prosecuting African leaders than western counterparts, and added that the death toll during and after the Iraq conflict was sufficient for Blair and Bush to face trial.
And history, supports the "Worlds" request
'Playground bullies'
"On these grounds alone, in a consistent world, those responsible for this suffering and loss of life should be treading the same path as some of their African and Asian peers who have been made to answer for their actions in The Hague," Tutu wrote in the weekly UK newspaper.
"But even greater costs have been exacted beyond the killing fields, in the hardened hearts and minds of members of the human family across the world."
Tutu, a long-standing vocal critic of the Iraq war, also
Friday, October 22, 2010
WikiLeaks: At Least 109,000 Killed During Iraq War
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wikleaks-dumps-thousands-classified-military-documents/story?id=11949670
A little more "war" heat.
The whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks today released a trove of classified reports that it said documented at least 109,000 deaths in the Iraq war, more than the United States previously has acknowledged, as well as what it described as cases of torture and other abuses by Iraqi and coalition forces.
A little more "war" heat.
The whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks today released a trove of classified reports that it said documented at least 109,000 deaths in the Iraq war, more than the United States previously has acknowledged, as well as what it described as cases of torture and other abuses by Iraqi and coalition forces.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Photos show US soldiers posing with Afghan corpses
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20101001/D9IJ5OU80.html
Talk about having to much time on your hands.
This is called documented decadence.
The sick part is that others knew and shared these pictures.
And no one turned them in.
Now ask yourself, just exactly how many people are involved in this because it's no longer just the 3.
They shared the experience
And they wonder why the suicide rate for the military has sky rocketed .
Those who have seen the photos say they are grisly: soldiers beside newly killed bodies, decaying corpses and severed fingers.
The dozens of photos, described in interviews and in e-mails and military documents obtained by The Associated Press, were seized by Army investigators and are a crucial part of the case against five soldiers accused of killing three Afghan civilians earlier this year.
Troops allegedly shared the photos by e-mail and thumb drive like electronic trading cards. Now 60 to 70
Morlock's attorney, Michael Waddington, said the photos were not just shared among the defendants or even their platoon. He cited witnesses who told him that many at Forward Operating Base Ramrod in Kandahar Province kept such images, including one photograph of someone holding up a decapitated head blown off in an explosion.
That photo had nothing to do with Morlock, he said. It's not clear whether it's among the photos seized in the case.
Talk about having to much time on your hands.
This is called documented decadence.
The sick part is that others knew and shared these pictures.
And no one turned them in.
Now ask yourself, just exactly how many people are involved in this because it's no longer just the 3.
They shared the experience
And they wonder why the suicide rate for the military has sky rocketed .
Those who have seen the photos say they are grisly: soldiers beside newly killed bodies, decaying corpses and severed fingers.
The dozens of photos, described in interviews and in e-mails and military documents obtained by The Associated Press, were seized by Army investigators and are a crucial part of the case against five soldiers accused of killing three Afghan civilians earlier this year.
Troops allegedly shared the photos by e-mail and thumb drive like electronic trading cards. Now 60 to 70
Morlock's attorney, Michael Waddington, said the photos were not just shared among the defendants or even their platoon. He cited witnesses who told him that many at Forward Operating Base Ramrod in Kandahar Province kept such images, including one photograph of someone holding up a decapitated head blown off in an explosion.
That photo had nothing to do with Morlock, he said. It's not clear whether it's among the photos seized in the case.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Army to investigate claims about man portrayed as ringleader in Afghan war-crimes case
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013032321_warcrimes30m.html
The art of the "Thrill Kill".
How strange is it that about the time that the 'meat" of this story comes to the attention of the American public, Fort Hood has 4 suicides in the same week.
Is anybody really surprised that there is intentional murder occurring, when it's so widely known throught the military that this war was created for Corporate profit.
The message drilled home by a "War for Profit" is that the value of human life means nothing.
Other soldiers, in statements to Army criminal investigators, have portrayed Gibbs as the ringleader of the group that carried out the killings and other crimes, including beating one fellow soldier believed to be a drug informant. The investigation has resulted in charges against a dozen soldiers from the 5th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, at Lewis-McChord.
The art of the "Thrill Kill".
How strange is it that about the time that the 'meat" of this story comes to the attention of the American public, Fort Hood has 4 suicides in the same week.
Is anybody really surprised that there is intentional murder occurring, when it's so widely known throught the military that this war was created for Corporate profit.
The message drilled home by a "War for Profit" is that the value of human life means nothing.
Other soldiers, in statements to Army criminal investigators, have portrayed Gibbs as the ringleader of the group that carried out the killings and other crimes, including beating one fellow soldier believed to be a drug informant. The investigation has resulted in charges against a dozen soldiers from the 5th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, at Lewis-McChord.
More contractors than troops killed in war zones this year
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/me_iraq0953_09_29.asp
Sounds bizarre doesn't it, but it also tells the truth of the American war tale. The taxpayer is footing the bill not so much for our own troops but for the private payment of the corporate foot soldier.
It's definitely time to see a break down on where all the money is going for the DoD.
Never before have our troops received the maid service that corporate America has so kindly been contracted to provide.
The big what if: if the perks of having the security provided by the corporate foot soldier were rescinded, would our military still know how to function?
WASHINGTON — U.S. private contractors have been killed at a faster rate than American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A report said the deaths of private contractors in Afghanistan and Iraq have exceeded those of American soldiers in 2010. The report by ProPublica said this marked the first time in history that private employees have been dying at a faster rate than the soldiers of the U.S. military that contracted the civilians
Sounds bizarre doesn't it, but it also tells the truth of the American war tale. The taxpayer is footing the bill not so much for our own troops but for the private payment of the corporate foot soldier.
It's definitely time to see a break down on where all the money is going for the DoD.
Never before have our troops received the maid service that corporate America has so kindly been contracted to provide.
The big what if: if the perks of having the security provided by the corporate foot soldier were rescinded, would our military still know how to function?
WASHINGTON — U.S. private contractors have been killed at a faster rate than American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A report said the deaths of private contractors in Afghanistan and Iraq have exceeded those of American soldiers in 2010. The report by ProPublica said this marked the first time in history that private employees have been dying at a faster rate than the soldiers of the U.S. military that contracted the civilians
Sunday, August 29, 2010
AP IMPACT: US wasted billions in rebuilding Iraq
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100829/ap_on_bi_ge/ml_iraq_us_reconstruction_legacy
A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children's hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million waste water treatment system in Fallujah has cost three times more than projected, yet sewage still runs through the streets
As the U.S. draws down in Iraq, it is leaving behind hundreds of abandoned or incomplete projects. More than $5 billion in American taxpayer funds has been wasted — more than 10 percent of the some $50 billion the U.S. has spent on reconstruction in Iraq, according to audits from a U.S. watchdog agency.
That amount is likely an underestimate, based on an analysis of more than 300 reports by auditors with the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction. And it does not take into account security costs, which have run almost 17 percent for some projects.
There are success stories.
A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children's hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million waste water treatment system in Fallujah has cost three times more than projected, yet sewage still runs through the streets
As the U.S. draws down in Iraq, it is leaving behind hundreds of abandoned or incomplete projects. More than $5 billion in American taxpayer funds has been wasted — more than 10 percent of the some $50 billion the U.S. has spent on reconstruction in Iraq, according to audits from a U.S. watchdog agency.
That amount is likely an underestimate, based on an analysis of more than 300 reports by auditors with the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction. And it does not take into account security costs, which have run almost 17 percent for some projects.
There are success stories.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
GE pays $23M to settle Iraq kickback charges
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/GE-pays-23M-to-settle-Iraq-apf-2815785122.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=6&asset=&ccode=
Another fine, which amounts to a drop in the bucket of money that GE has made off of it's corporate contracts from the United States Government during it's on going invasion of Iraq. But what the heck GE will surely recoup any loss it might have incurred from it's Iraq indiscretions, over in Afghanistan.
How convenient
GE to pay $23 million to settle SEC charges over oil-for-food kickbacks in Iraq
General Electric Co. will pay $23.4 million to settle federal charges that some of its subsidiaries paid illegal kickbacks to the Iraqi government in order to win contracts under a U.N. program.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said in a civil complaint filed Tuesday in federal court that GE subsidiaries gave cash, computers, medical supplies and other goods worth $3.6 million to the Iraqi health and oil ministries from 2000 to 2003.
The SEC alleged the kickbacks were in return for contracts to supply medical and water purification equipment under the United Nations' oil-for-food program, which provided humanitarian aid to prewar Iraq.
Cheryl Scarboro, head of the SEC's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act unit, said GE "failed to maintain adequate internal controls to detect and prevent these illicit payments."
GE agreed to pay a $1 million penalty and give up about $22.5 million in profit and interest earned from the transactions. The company does not admit or deny wrongdoing under the settlement. GE also said that the Department of Justice has closed its own investigation into the matter.
Another fine, which amounts to a drop in the bucket of money that GE has made off of it's corporate contracts from the United States Government during it's on going invasion of Iraq. But what the heck GE will surely recoup any loss it might have incurred from it's Iraq indiscretions, over in Afghanistan.
How convenient
GE to pay $23 million to settle SEC charges over oil-for-food kickbacks in Iraq
General Electric Co. will pay $23.4 million to settle federal charges that some of its subsidiaries paid illegal kickbacks to the Iraqi government in order to win contracts under a U.N. program.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said in a civil complaint filed Tuesday in federal court that GE subsidiaries gave cash, computers, medical supplies and other goods worth $3.6 million to the Iraqi health and oil ministries from 2000 to 2003.
The SEC alleged the kickbacks were in return for contracts to supply medical and water purification equipment under the United Nations' oil-for-food program, which provided humanitarian aid to prewar Iraq.
Cheryl Scarboro, head of the SEC's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act unit, said GE "failed to maintain adequate internal controls to detect and prevent these illicit payments."
GE agreed to pay a $1 million penalty and give up about $22.5 million in profit and interest earned from the transactions. The company does not admit or deny wrongdoing under the settlement. GE also said that the Department of Justice has closed its own investigation into the matter.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Pentagon rethinking value of major counterinsurgencies
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/12/94058/pentagon-rethinking-value-of-major.html#storylink=omni_popular
Nearly a decade after the United States began to focus its military training and equipment purchases almost exclusively on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. military strategists are quietly shifting gears, saying that large-scale counterinsurgency efforts cost too much and last too long.
The domestic economic crisis and the Obama administration's commitment to withdraw from Iraq and begin drawing down in Afghanistan next year are factors in the change. The biggest spur, however, is a growing recognition that large-scale counterinsurgency battles have high casualty rates for troops and civilians, eat up equipment that must be replaced and rarely end in clear victory or defeat.
The economic downturn is driving much of the change within the Pentagon. Military spending has risen steadily since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
When former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld arrived at the Pentagon in 2001, the Defense Department budget was $291.1 billion, or $357.72 billion in today's dollars. The current budget is $708 billion for defense costs and funding the wars.
Pentagon planners say budget cuts are inevitable, and that the change in strategy will help make them.
"We now have to figure out what works. We used to have a practically unlimited budget. Not anymore," said a senior military officer, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity in order to talk candidly. "There is no more room to experiment."
After most major conflicts in U.S. history, defense spending has dropped to prewar levels within two years, accounting for inflation, said James Quinlivan, a military analyst at the RAND Corp. The ends of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan aren't likely to make spending drop that quickly, Quinlivan said
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/12/94058/pentagon-rethinking-value-of-major.html#storylink=omni_popular#ixzz0nqSJ2kFe
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/12/94058/pentagon-rethinking-value-of-major.html#storylink=omni_popular#ixzz0nqRxhbg0
Nearly a decade after the United States began to focus its military training and equipment purchases almost exclusively on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. military strategists are quietly shifting gears, saying that large-scale counterinsurgency efforts cost too much and last too long.
The domestic economic crisis and the Obama administration's commitment to withdraw from Iraq and begin drawing down in Afghanistan next year are factors in the change. The biggest spur, however, is a growing recognition that large-scale counterinsurgency battles have high casualty rates for troops and civilians, eat up equipment that must be replaced and rarely end in clear victory or defeat.
The economic downturn is driving much of the change within the Pentagon. Military spending has risen steadily since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
When former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld arrived at the Pentagon in 2001, the Defense Department budget was $291.1 billion, or $357.72 billion in today's dollars. The current budget is $708 billion for defense costs and funding the wars.
Pentagon planners say budget cuts are inevitable, and that the change in strategy will help make them.
"We now have to figure out what works. We used to have a practically unlimited budget. Not anymore," said a senior military officer, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity in order to talk candidly. "There is no more room to experiment."
After most major conflicts in U.S. history, defense spending has dropped to prewar levels within two years, accounting for inflation, said James Quinlivan, a military analyst at the RAND Corp. The ends of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan aren't likely to make spending drop that quickly, Quinlivan said
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/12/94058/pentagon-rethinking-value-of-major.html#storylink=omni_popular#ixzz0nqSJ2kFe
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/12/94058/pentagon-rethinking-value-of-major.html#storylink=omni_popular#ixzz0nqRxhbg0
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