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Originally posted as:
MAJOR BUSH-CHENEY-911 DOCUMENTATION
on February 23, 2002
by Phoenix
http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=17746
: "Yes, this is how crazy it gets!
: Up until Dick Cheney became our VP, his company, Halliburton's
: Dresser subsidaries did business with Iraq, Iran and Libya
: under agreements he made as the CEO of Halliburton.
: Dick Cheney was the Secretary of Defense under Bush The Senior
: when the Gulf War took place.
: So, as The Secretary of Defense he bombed the heck out of
: Iraq.
: Well, business is business.
: So when you bomb an oil facility, who is the best one to come
: in and rebuild it?
: You got it.
: Dick Cheney and his company Halliburton.
: Who is our current VP under Bush The Younger?
: (I know it sounds like an insane script).
: And who ran the company of Halliburton until he became our VP?
: Dick Cheney!!!!!
: Who has been doing business with Binladin and the Chinese and
: Japanese to get the gas and oil shipped to them from
: Turkmenistan?
: Halliburton!!!!!
: Here are the articles detailing Hallibuton's illegal deals
: with Iraq, Iran and Libya.
: I will have to reproduce it in full since I have it from WSJ.
: What will follow is another article from WSJ fron last
: February showing Cheney heading a Halliburton office in
: Iran, then an article dated 4 days before 911 about
: Halliburton getting a HUGE contract to build a gas facility
: in Japan.
:
: _______________________________________________________________
: Firm's Iraq Deals Greater Than Cheney Has Said; Affiliates Had
: $73 Million in Contracts
: Colum Lynch
: 06/23/2001
: The Washington Post
: FINAL
: Page A01
: UNITED NATIONS -- During last year's presidential campaign,
: Richard B. Cheney acknowledged that the oil-field supply
: corporation he headed, Halliburton Co., did business with
: Libya and Iran through foreign subsidiaries. But he
: insisted that he had imposed a "firm policy"
: against trading with Iraq.
: "Iraq's different," he said.
: According to oil industry executives and confidential United
: Nations records, however, Halliburton held stakes in two
: firms that signed contracts to sell more than $73 million
: in oil production equipment and spare parts to Iraq while
: Cheney was chairman and chief executive officer of the
: Dallas-based company.
: Two former senior executives of the Halliburton subsidiaries
: say that, as far as they knew, there was no policy against
: doing business with Iraq. One of the executives also says
: that although he never spoke directly to Cheney about the
: Iraqi contracts, he is certain Cheney knew about them.
: Mary Matalin, Cheney's counselor, said that if he "was
: ever in a conversation or meeting where there was a
: question of pursuing a project with someone in Iraq, he
: said, 'No.' "
: "In a joint venture, he would not have reviewed all their
: existing contracts," Matalin said. "The nature of
: those joint ventures was that they had a separate governing
: structure, so he had no control over them."
: The trade was perfectly legal. Indeed, it is a case study of
: how U.S. firms routinely use foreign subsidiaries and joint
: ventures to avoid the opprobrium of doing business with
: Baghdad, which does not violate U.S. law as long as it
: occurs within the "oil-for-food" program run by
: the United Nations.
: Halliburton's trade with Iraq was first reported by The
: Washington Post in February 2000. But U.N. records recently
: obtained by The Post show that the dealings were more
: extensive than originally reported and than Vice President
: Cheney has acknowledged.
: As secretary of defense in the first Bush administration,
: Cheney helped to lead a multinational coalition against
: Iraq in the Persian Gulf War and to devise a comprehensive
: economic embargo to isolate Saddam Hussein's government.
: After Cheney was named in 1995 to head Halliburton, he
: promised to maintain a hard line against Baghdad.
: But in 1998, Cheney oversaw Halliburton's acquisition of
: Dresser Industries Inc., which exported equipment to Iraq
: through two subsidiaries of a joint venture with another
: large U.S. equipment maker, Ingersoll-Rand Co.
: The subsidiaries, Dresser-Rand and Ingersoll Dresser Pump Co.,
: sold water and sewage treatment pumps, spare parts for oil
: facilities and pipeline equipment to Baghdad through French
: affiliates from the first half of 1997 to the summer of
: 2000, U.N. records show. Ingersoll Dresser Pump also signed
: contracts -- later blocked by the United States -- to help
: repair an Iraqi oil terminal that U.S.-led military forces
: destroyed in the Gulf War.
: Former executives at the subsidiaries said they had never
: heard objections -- from Cheney or any other Halliburton
: official -- to trading with Baghdad.
: "Halliburton and Ingersoll-Rand, as far as I know, had no
: official policy about that, other than we would be in
: compliance with applicable U.S. and international
: laws," said Cleive Dumas, who oversaw Ingersoll
: Dresser Pump's business in the Middle East, including Iraq.
: Halliburton's primary concern, added Ingersoll-Rand's former
: chairman, James E. Perrella, "was that if we did
: business with [the Iraqi regime], that it be allowed by the
: United States government. If it wasn't allowed, we wouldn't
: do it."
: Dumas and Perrella said their companies' commercial links to
: the Iraqi oil industry began before the U.N. Security
: Council imposed an oil embargo on Baghdad in the wake of
: its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
: They returned to dealing with Iraq after the council
: established the "oil-for-food" program in
: December 1996, permitting Iraq to export oil under U.N.
: supervision and use the proceeds to buy food, medicine and
: humanitarian goods. The program was expanded in 1998 to
: allow Iraq to import spare parts for its oil facilities.
: The Halliburton subsidiaries joined dozens of American and
: foreign oil supply companies that helped Iraq increase its
: crude exports from $4 billion in 1997 to nearly $18 billion
: in 2000. Since the program began, Iraq has exported oil
: worth more than $40 billion.
: The proceeds funded a sharp increase in the country's
: nutritional standards, nearly doubling the food rations
: distributed to Iraq's poor.
: But U.S. and European officials acknowledged that the expanded
: production also increased Saddam Hussein's capacity to
: siphon off money for weapons, luxury goods and palaces.
: Security Council diplomats estimate that Iraq may be
: skimming off as much as 10 percent of the proceeds from the
: oil-for-food program.
: Cheney has offered contradictory accounts of how much he knew
: about Halliburton's dealings with Iraq. In a July 30, 2000,
: interview on ABC-TV's "This Week," he denied that
: Halliburton or its subsidiaries traded with Baghdad.
: "I had a firm policy that we wouldn't do anything in
: Iraq, even arrangements that were supposedly legal,"
: he said. "We've not done any business in Iraq since
: U.N. sanctions were imposed on Iraq in 1990, and I had a
: standing policy that I wouldn't do that."
: Cheney modified his response in an interview on the same
: program three weeks later, after he was informed that a
: Halliburton spokesman had acknowledged that Dresser Rand
: and Ingersoll Dresser Pump traded with Iraq.
: He said he was unaware that the subsidiaries were doing
: business with the Iraqi regime when Halliburton purchased
: Dresser Industries in September 1998.
: "We inherited two joint ventures with Ingersoll-Rand that
: were selling some parts into Iraq ," Cheney explained,
: "but we divested ourselves of those interests."
: The divestiture, however, was not immediate. The firms traded
: with Baghdad for more than a year under Cheney, signing
: nearly $30 million in contracts before he sold
: Halliburton's 49 percent stake in Ingersoll Dresser Pump
: Co. in December 1999 and its 51 percent interest in Dresser
: Rand to Ingersoll-Rand in February 2000, according to U.N.
: records.
: Perrella said he believes Halliburton officials must have
: known about the Iraqi links before they purchased Dresser.
: "They obviously did due diligence," he said.
: And even if Cheney was not told about the business with
: Baghdad before the purchase, Perrella said, the CEO almost
: certainly would have learned about it after the
: acquisition. "Oh, definitely, he was aware of the
: business," Perrella said, although Perrella conceded
: that this was an assumption based on knowledge of how the
: company worked, not a fact to which he could personally
: attest because he never discussed the Iraqi contracts with
: Cheney.
: A long-time critic of unilateral U.S. sanctions, which he has
: argued penalize American companies while failing to punish
: the targeted regimes, Cheney has pushed for a review of
: U.S. policy toward countries such as Iraq, Iran and Libya.
: In the first expression of that new thinking, the Bush
: administration is campaigning in the U.N. Security Council
: to end an 11-year embargo on sales of civilian goods,
: including oil-related equipment, to Iraq.
: U.S. officials say the new policy is aimed at easing
: restrictions on companies that conduct legitimate trade
: with Iraq, while clamping down on weapons smuggling and
: other black-market activity.
: If the plan is approved, there would be "nothing to stop
: Iraq from importing [as many] oil spare parts as it
: needs" from Halliburton and other suppliers, according
: to a British official who briefed reporters on the proposal
: when it was introduced last month.
: Cheney resigned as chairman of Halliburton last August.
: Although he has retained stock options worth about $8
: million, he has arranged to donate to charity any profits
: from the eventual exercise of those options, Glover Weiss
: said.
: Confidential U.N. documents show that Halliburton's affiliates
: have had broad, and sometimes controversial, dealings with
: the Iraqi regime.
: For instance, the documents detail more than $2.5 million in
: contracts between Ingersoll Dresser Pump Co. and Iraq that
: were blocked by the Clinton administration. They included
: agreements by the firm to sell $760,000 in spare parts,
: compressors and firefighting equipment to refurbish an
: offshore oil terminal, Khor al Amaya.
: The Persian Gulf terminal was badly damaged during the 1980-88
: Iran-Iraq War and later was destroyed by allied warplanes
: during Operation Desert Storm. At the time, Cheney was
: secretary of defense.
: Washington halted the sale because the facility was "not
: authorized under the oil-for-food deal," according to
: U.N. documents. Under the terms of the oil-for-food
: program, Baghdad is permitted to export crude oil, subject
: to U.N. supervision, through only two terminals, Ceyhan in
: Turkey and Mina al Bakr on the Persian Gulf.
: The equipment was never delivered to Iraq, but Baghdad
: subsequently repaired the Khor al Amaya facility on its
: own.
: A senior Iraqi oil ministry official, Faiz Shaheen, told an
: official Iraqi newspaper that Iraq would soon be able to
: export about 600,000 barrels a day of crude oil from the
: terminal.
: Dumas said he was not aware of the dispute over the Khor al
: Amaya terminal. It was unlikely, he added, that Cheney or
: other top Halliburton executives would have known about the
: specific deals. "We had great independence in running
: our business," he said.
: U.S. officials say the Bush administration is prepared to
: allow Iraq to resume exports from Khor al Amaya, as long as
: the earnings are placed in a U.N. escrow account that is
: used to pay for humanitarian supplies and further
: improvements to the oil industry.
: "The U.S. attitude towards Iraqi exports has evolved
: considerably," said James A. Placke, a
: Washington-based analyst for Cambridge Energy Research
: Associates, a consulting firm. "They used to tightly
: restrict Iraqi oil exports, and now there is no limitation
: on Iraqi exports."
: Iraq's power to entice foreign investment, meanwhile, has
: increased with the soaring demand for oil. U.S. companies,
: which have been able to trade with Iraq only through
: foreign subsidiaries and middlemen, are wary of dealing
: with Baghdad but eager to get a piece of the action,
: according to industry sources.
: "The American oil industry is very interested in trying
: to enter Iraq," said J. Robinson West, chairman of
: Petroleum Finance Co., a consulting firm. "But I think
: that they are quite respectful of U.S. policy towards
: Saddam Hussein. There is a very strong feeling that in fact
: he is the greatest threat to oil production in the Middle
: East."
: http://www.washingtonpost.com
: Contact: http://www.washingtonpost.com
: Also basically same information at:
: http://www.spotlight.org/01_05_01/Cheney_Profits_from_Iraq_Deals/cheney_profits_from_iraq_deals.html
: ____________________________________________________________
: Halliburton
: Connected to
: Office in Iran
: ---
: Firm Cheney Headed
: Says It Doesn't Breach
: U.S. Sanctions Law
: By Wall Street Journal staff reporters Hugh Pope in Tehran ,
: Iran, and Neil King Jr. in Washington
: 02/01/2001
: The Wall Street Journal
: Page A17
: Halliburton Co., the U.S. oil-services giant until recently
: headed by Vice President Richard Cheney , has opened an
: office in Tehran and operated in Iran in possible violation
: of U.S. sanctions.
: Since 1995, U.S. laws have banned most American commerce with
: Iran. Halliburton Products and Services Ltd. works behind
: an unmarked door on the ninth floor of a new north Tehran
: tower block. A brochure declares that the company was
: registered in 1975 in the Cayman Islands, is based in the
: Persian Gulf sheikdom of Dubai and is
: "non-American." But, like the sign over the
: receptionist's head, the brochure bears the Dallas
: company's name and red emblem, and offers services from
: Halliburton units around the world.
: Mr. Cheney 's spokesman, Juleanna Glover-Weiss, declined to
: comment, except to say that "the vice president is no
: longer head of Halliburton and has severed all ties to the
: company."
: But a U.S. official said a Halliburton office in Tehran would
: violate at least the spirit of American law. The Treasury
: Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control declined to
: comment on a specific company, referring inquiries to a Web
: site summary of Iran sanctions that bans almost all U.S.
: trade and investment with Iran, specifically in oil
: services. The Web site adds: "No U.S. person may
: approve or facilitate the entry into or performance of
: transactions or contracts with Iran by a foreign subsidiary
: of a U.S. firm that the U.S. person is precluded from
: performing directly. Similarly, no U.S. person may
: facilitate such transactions by unaffiliated foreign
: persons."
: An executive order signed by President Clinton in March 1995
: prohibits "new investments [in Iran] by U.S. persons,
: including commitment of funds or other assets." It
: also bars U.S. companies from performing services
: "that would benefit the Iranian oil industry."
: Violation of the order can result in fines of as much as
: $500,000 for companies and up to 10 years in jail for
: individuals.
: Halliburton spokeswoman Wendy Hall said the Tehran office
: didn't violate the Treasury Department's restrictions on
: foreign subsidiaries of U.S. firms operating in Iran.
: "This is not breaking any laws," Ms. Hall said.
: "This is a foreign subsidiary and no U.S. person is
: involved in this. No U.S. person is facilitating any
: transaction. We are not performing directly in that
: country." Ms. Hall suggested that other companies were
: performing in a similar fashion in Iran but did not
: elaborate.
: The Halliburton brochure in Tehran says the company has
: performed oil-drilling services on two offshore drilling
: contracts in the Iranian sector of the Persian Gulf. One is
: the Sirri field, being developed by France's TotalFinaElf
: SA, and the other is Phase 1 of the South Pars field, being
: developed by an Iranian company. "We are committed to
: position ourselves in a market that offers huge growth
: potential," it says.
: Halliburton's Tehran subsidiary opened nearly a year ago,
: workers in the building said. At that time Mr. Cheney was
: Halliburton's chief executive officer. He was such an
: outspoken critic of U.S. sanctions policy that Senate
: Majority Leader Trent Lott related last week that Mr.
: Cheney once called him "to complain vigorously about
: how we handle sanctions, unilateral sanctions, and what it
: was doing to undermine the ability of American companies to
: be competitive."
: U.S. companies feel left behind in the race to develop Iran's
: 90 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, about 9% of the
: world's total, and its natural-gas reserves, the second
: largest in the world. TotalFinaElf, Italy's ENI SpA and
: Asian companies have meanwhile ignored U.S. sanctions to
: sign up a potential $8 billion in deals since Iran opened
: up its oil industry to foreign investment in 1998.
: Iranians are convinced that the new Republican administration
: in Washington will soon relax a policy that has crippled
: their economy for years. Already last year, Washington
: allowed renewed imports of Iranian carpets, pistachio nuts
: and caviar. In January, Secretary of State Colin Powell
: told the U.S. Senate that "differences need not
: preclude greater interaction, whether in more normal
: commerce or increased dialogue."
: A January meeting in New York brought together Iranian Foreign
: Minister Kamal Kharrazi and the chiefs of Exxon Mobil
: Corp., Chevron Corp. and Conoco Inc. "The [Iranian]
: oil ministry is even keeping certain fields back for the
: [U.S.] majors ... and is encouraging them very much,"
: said Rocky Ansari, managing partner of Tehran legal
: advisers Cyrus Omron International. "A huge amount of
: investment is necessary for Iran to renovate the industry.
: That cannot only come from Europe."
: Foreign Minister Kharrazi told the Iranian national news
: agency IRNA in January that the time is right for the U.S.
: to "rectify" its policies. Foreign Ministry
: spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi likewise told an Iranian
: newspaper that there was a good opportunity for change and
: that Iran would give an "appropriate response" if
: the U.S. lifts sanctions.
: "It's in our interest, as well as America's. We can buy
: anything we want via Europe. But they know we can't get it
: from America, so it's more expensive for us," said one
: senior Iranian official.
: The official said Iran's mainstream conservative and reformist
: factions agreed on the basic need to restore relations
: broken after Iranian students seized 52 Americans in 1979
: and held them hostage in the former U.S. Embassy for 444
: days. Both Iranian factions agreed on what would be said
: when reformist President Mohammed Khatami appealed for an
: end to the wall of mistrust between the U.S. and Iran
: shortly after his election in 1997.
: The Iranian official said Iran was subsequently upset by U.S.
: "preconditions" about discussing American
: allegations of Iranian backing of terrorism, nuclear
: programs and opposition to the Middle East peace process.
: But he hoped for a new beginning if Mr. Khatami was
: re-elected president in June.
: A U.S. official in Washington said the U.S. was keen to sit
: down to talk with Iranian representatives "anytime,
: anywhere," but that Iran refuses to meet unless the
: U.S. puts aside all of its differences with Iranian
: policies.
: "It is absurd to say that we have imposed conditions upon
: any dialogue with Tehran ," the official said.
: "But at the same time, we're not going to enter into a
: bargain with Iran that would have us agreeing to set aside
: all the issues that separate us in order to begin to
: talk."
: ---
: Alexei Barrionuevo in Houston contributed to this article.
: ___________________________________________________________
: Halliburton , JGC Win Contract
: 09/07/2001
: The Wall Street Journal
: Page A8
: DALLAS -- Halliburton Co.'s Kellogg Brown & Root unit, in
: a joint venture with JGC Corp. of Yokohama, Japan, won an
: engineering-design contract for a Shell Gas & Power
: gas-to-liquids plant.
: Financial terms weren't disclosed, but Shell, a unit of Royal
: Dutch/Shell Group, said the contract was "worth tens
: of millions of dollars." The plant, whose location
: hasn't been determined, will convert gas to liquids free of
: aromatics and sulfur."
:
: ________________________________________________________________
: Originally posted as: CHENEY'S HALLIBURTON ILLEGAL BIZ WITH
: IRAN, IRAQ
: on October 27, 2001
: by Phoenix
: http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=13895
: Phoenix
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