email from a Spanish correspondent: apart from the red necks, easily spotted by their duck-hunter look, there were a noticeable bunch of people from the Balcans and East Europe employed by KBR in the Middle East (Baghdad & Kuwait) as well
from 2004 Halliburton press release: Halliburton’s team — multi-national employees from America, the United Kingdom, Australia and eastern Europe — were ready to start their assignments in Iraq…
and don’t forget Poland: Poland’s state fuel holding company Nafta Polska has created a joint venture with Halliburton Co. unit Kellogg, Brown and Root to seek contracts in rebuilding post-war Iraq, Reuters reported senior officials said on Tuesday…
Will KBR be sold off? See Wikipedia
Cubic–another PMC (Private Military Contractor) with Balkan roots: Along with preparing after-action reports and adjudicating “kills,” Cubic brings in Bosnian refugees from around the U.S. to recreate their experiences at the Army war games at Fort Polk. It’s a big production–in January more than 600 Cubic employees were needed to create an exercise for 6,500 troops.
but wait, there’s more! (from link above) And now the military training industry is expanding overseas. MPRI advised the Croatian army shortly before it launched a pivotal attack against Serb forces in Bosnia in 1995 and more recently advised the Colombian Defense Ministry. Cubic has won contracts from the Pentagon and the State Department to train the armies of new NATO members like Romania, Hungary, and the Czech Republic in NATO doctrine. That work has given the San Diego company entree to winning direct business from these governments in the future. “We may not be a household name in America,” says Gerald Dinkel, who runs Cubic’s defense unit, “but we’re getting to be pretty well known in Eastern Europe.” DynCorp helped train the Haitian police and is now advising members of the new Afghan police.
Is War Profiteering Making You Sick? pdf
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