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Iraq
April 17, 2004
Rantisi's replacement

New Hamas leader will be Halliburton contractor

DAMASCUS (AP) - In the wake of yet another assassination of a Hamas' top manager in Gaza and the threat of a merger with the Palestinian Authority, Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal announced that he would be contracting Houston company Halliburton, Inc. for the new Gaza regional manager role.

"After years of working with locally-trained executives with decreasing success, we're bringing in outside talent," he said from his bunker on the outskirts of Damascus. "Despite their primarily being involved in oil services and drilling, their security division is a perfect model for our resistance operations."

The Houston-based company agreed, and a deal was made. "We have years of experience in placing individuals in positions of high risk in the Middle East," said a senior Halliburton executive who wished not to be named.

The exact terms of the contract were not disclosed, but they were said to number in the millions of euros.

"And if it doesn't work out," said Meshall, "we can always take the infidel hostage and demand ransom."

Posted By Laurence Simon at April 17, 2004 11:39 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Democrats will find this funny.

Posted by: Helen at April 18, 2004 12:42 AM

Take a number. You can't be first but you can be next.

Posted by: Next at April 18, 2004 02:35 AM

No, no, Hamas is not contracting Halliurton to coordinate resistance, Halliburton is subcontracting the reconstruction of Gaza to Hamas. Are you surprised?

Halliburton is currently under investigation for ties to Hamas' state sponsor in Tehran, in violation of US sanction.
It is well known, for instance, that, "Department of Treasury investigators recently reopened an investigation of Halliburton for evading and possibly breaking U.S. sanctions prohibiting trade with Iran. Although the Treasury Department had investigated this allegation in the past, a new investigation was begun this month, subsequent to new revelations of Halliburton’s shell games to avoid the sanctions preventing U.S. corporations from doing business with terrorist states."

Posted by: chsa at April 18, 2004 03:52 AM

Lautenberg you say.. hmmm isn't he called The Mafia's Senator in New Jersey? He does know about corruption doesn't he? Do you think the executives he is targeting were late with his payments? It sounds like that.

Posted by: leaddog2 at April 18, 2004 09:19 AM

"He does know about corruption doesn’t he?"

Of course he does. There's no other way to get into elected office in the United States.

"Do you think the executives he is targeting were late with his payments?"

Possibly. But his tone makes it seems more likely that he was sidelined in the kickback process, or simply left out of the deal altogether.

Posted by: chsa at April 18, 2004 04:39 PM

The only reason I am responding is to annoy you. I became a Republican right after I found out that they were the party of the AntiChrist.

Posted by: BnEChildMolStalker at April 24, 2004 10:10 PM

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