Obit: KBR employee dies in Iraq (Feb 2007)

Subject: RE: Obit: KBR employee dies
From: pdq
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 02:34 PM

US Contractor Killed By US Forces Near Entrance To Air Base
February 10, 2007: 02:55 PM EST


BAGHDAD (AP)--The U.S. military confirmed on Saturday that American forces at Camp Anaconda, the huge air base north of Baghdad, shot and killed a civilian contract truck driver.

A spokeswoman for KBR, a contracting subsidiary of Halliburton Co. (HAL) that was formerly known as Kellog, Brown & Root, said the incident was under investigation.

Spokeswoman Melissa Norcross said the company was not releasing the name of the dead driver or a second person in the truck who was wounded "to protect the individuals' privacy."

In Baghdad, Lt. Cmdr. Bill speaks said, "There was an escalation of force incident at Camp Anaconda on Feb. 5 (Monday) that resulted in the death of a civilian contractor. The incident is under investigation by the Army Criminal Investigation Division and KBR."

An escalation of force incident normally means a driver approaching a checkpoint didn't respond to military orders to approach slowly and stop.

"Sadly, 98 KBR employees and subcontractors have lost their lives, and more than 430 have been wounded by hostile action while performing services under the company's government contracts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait," Norcross said in an email response to queries about the incident, which was first reported on the Web site of a Flint, Michigan, television station.

Subject: RE: Obit: KBR employee dies
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 12:41 PM

Big Brother would like the phrase, I'm sure.

Subject: RE: Obit: KBR employee dies
From: Cruiser
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 12:40 PM

Bee-dubya-ell,

You always have unique, folksy, interesting viewpoints on, and interpretations of, issues.

Subject: RE: Obit: KBR employee dies
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 12:30 PM

"Escalation of force incident" seems to be a modern-day-warfare euphimism for "going apeshit". At least I'm pretty sure that's what they called it in Vietnam.

Subject: RE: Obit: KBR employee dies
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 11:52 AM

"Escalation of force" incidents are extremely common wherever the Empire goes....

And so are civilian contractors for outfits like Kellog, Brown, & Root/Halliburton/Bechtel/etc...

You want to know more about it? Read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins, published in 2004.

Subject: RE: Obit: KBR employee dies
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 11:46 AM

(formerly Kellogg, Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, Richard)

It says: "There was an escalation of force incident at Camp Anaconda on Feb. 5 (Monday) that resulted in the death of a civilian contractor. The incident is under investigation by the Army Criminal Investigation Division and KBR."

Isn't warfare marvelous?

Subject: RE: Obit: KBR employee dies
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 11:32 AM

Who KBR?

Subject: RE: Obit: KBR employee dies
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 11:03 AM

None that I ever heard of....

Subject: Obit: KBR employee dies
From: dianavan
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 03:42 AM

It is still under investigation but apparently U.S. military killed a KBR employee recently and wounded another.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/world/4543604.html

"The company and the Defense Department on Friday honored 28 contractors who were killed or wounded in the Middle East with the agency's civilian version of the Purple Heart, at a private ceremony at the Hilton Houston Post Oak hotel."

A civilian version of the Purple Heart?