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Edwards said Halliburton "did business with Libya and Iran, two sworn enemies of the United States" and is now "under investigation for having bribed foreign officials" while Cheney was CEO.

Iran: Indeed, Halliburton has said it does about $30 million to $40 million in oilfield service business in Iran annually through a subsidiary, Halliburton Products and Services Ltd. The company says that the subsidiary fully complies with US sanctions laws, but the matter currently is under investigation by a federal grand jury in Houston.

Bribery Investigation: U.S. and French authorities currently are investigating whether a joint venture whose partners included a Halliburton subsidiary paid bribes or kickbacks to win a $12 billion construction project in Nigeria.

Libya: Edwards was wrong to include Libya, however. In 1995, before Cheney joined the company, Halliburton pled guilty to criminal charges that it violated the U.S. ban on exports to Libya and said it would pay $3.81 million in fines. Those violations dated back to 1987 and 1990.

For more on Iran, see this 60 Minutes piece: "Doing Business with the Enemy".

Politics · Wed, 10/06/2004 - 18:02 · · Importance: 1

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It is not surprising that traitorism goes quite high in an administration as devoted to putting the foreigner first, as this one appears. The internationalist set will snub all these officials, as soon as they are out of power, since they are doing so already. If they are hoping to swim in the circles of big-time anti-nationalism, they should realize that they are permanent pariahs in the cosmopolitan elite venues. They are late to the traitors' party, and will not shake off their untouchability.

Posted by: John S Bolton at Oct 7, 2004 5:50 PM

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