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Ärende: Halliburton
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Looks like Go Cheney Yourself's old buddies don't give a shit about 
their employees.
All they want is those fat government checks.

Oh, and there's the Virginia National No-Guard...

Exclusive: U.S. Troops Abandoned Me, Says Convoy Driver
September 27, 2006 11:16 AM

Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz Report:

A dramatic home video obtained by ABC News shows U.S. troops apparently 
abandoned a truck convoy after it came under insurgent attack in Iraq 
last year.

Three unarmed Halliburton truck drivers were executed at point-blank 
range once the troops left, according to a surviving driver, Preston 
Wheeler, of Mena, Ark., who taped the scene.

"They was murdered. To me, they was murdered," Wheeler told ABC News in 
an exclusive interview to be broadcast Wednesday on World News and 
Nightline.

The tape shows an armored personnel carrier leading the trucks that 
Wheeler says was from the Virginia National Guard.

Once insurgents opened fire and disabled four trucks, the personnel 
carrier can be seen racing ahead.

"They left. They, I don't know where they went, they're nowhere to be 
seen," Wheeler said.

Wheeler says it was 45 minutes before a U.S. military force returned. By 
then, Wheeler says, he had seen two drivers shot at point-blank range. 
He identified them as Keven Dagit, of Jefferson, Iowa, and Sascha 
Greener-Case, of Sierra Vista, Ariz.

A Pentagon spokesman said the military had no immediate comment on the 
incident. 

The tape documents the final 15 minutes of the convoy's run out of Camp 
Anaconda, near Balad, Iraq.

Wheeler says the military commander took a wrong turn, and the convoy 
ended up in a neighborhood known as an insurgent stronghold.

Wheeler says Halliburton did not provide any of the drivers with maps or 
even rudimentary drawings of the location.

He says when he was hired by Halliburton he was promised the trucks 
would be equipped with bullet proof glass and armed guards every third 
truck.

"That's a lie, it's a gimmick, a sales pitch," Wheeler said.

Wheeler says he was told not to talk to the press. A Halliburton 
security guard wanted to delete the video of the ambush so that it would 
not become public, he says.

"He was afraid it was going to get on the Internet," Wheeler says.

A spokesperson for Halliburton declined to discuss the specifics of 
Wheeler's accusations and tape. The spokesperson says its employees sent 
to Iraq are fully informed of the risky nature of the assignment. 

Wheeler was hit by two AK-47 rounds and suffered serious damage to his 
right arm.

Two months after the ambush, Halliburton notified him he was fired, 
citing a "work-related" injury. 

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/09/exclusive_us_tr.html

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