Halliburton Questioned on $1.8 Billion Iraq Work.
/Pentagon auditors have concluded that Halliburton Co. failed to
adequately account for more than $1.8 billion of work in Iraq and
Kuwait, the Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday, citing a
Pentagon report. The amount represents 43 percent of the $4.18 billion
that Houston-based Halliburton's Kellogg Brown & Root unit
has billed the Pentagon to feed and house troops in the region,
the newspaper said. It said the findings in the 60-page Pentagon
audit report, dated Aug. 4 but not publicly released are likely
to increase pressure on the U.S. government to withhold hundreds
of millions of dollars of payments to Halliburton. This, it said,
potentially threatens the services that KBR provides U.S. troops
and other personnel in Iraq and Kuwait. Vice President Dick Cheney was
Halliburton's chief executive from 1995 to 2000. [more]
