King Fahd of Saudi Arabia Dead
Jason P
Islamofascist pig is survived by his pig of an Islamofascist brother.
Follow the money trail strait to the Iaslamonfascist pond scum that
want to kill our children.
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King Fahd: Soviets and madrassas
By Shirazuddin Siddiqi
BBC News
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, who has died aged 84, leaves a significant
but complex legacy for South and Central Asia, and the wider world.
The king played a key role in the war against Soviet troops in
Afghanistan in the 1980s - his country's financial input was believed
to be as big as the US contribution.
And he embarked on a partnership with General Zia to Islamicise
Pakistan, gathering large numbers of young Muslims from different
countries to become "ambassadors of faith" for the wider world.
The king's ambition was to spread Wahabi Islam - a sect that now has
followers in both Pakistan and Afghanistan - around the world.
He was among the first to help fund religious schools or "madrassas" in
Pakistan, some of which are now accused of links with militant groups
blamed for carrying out or inspiring terror attacks in a number of
countries.
Support for Taleban
The war against the Soviets gained unexpected momentum after King Fahd
ascended the throne in 1982.
Saudi Arabia, under him, matched every dollar that the American
administration put aside to defeat the Red Army.
King Fahd's combined religious and financial commitment inspired many
in the Arab world, some of whom came together in Afghanistan to
participate in the jihad (holy war) from which al-Qaeda eventually
emerged.
Hundreds of Muslim fighters travelled to Afghanistan and trained to
fight against the Soviets.
The combination of unprecedented large sums of money and the increase
in numbers of foreign fighters led to a rapid escalation of the war in
Afghanistan in the mid-1980s which took the Soviet forces by surprise.
The USSR collapsed within a couple of years of the withdrawal.
King Fahd's foreign policies had many repercussions.
His invitation to US forces to help protect his kingdom in the early
1990s angered many of his subjects, some of whom later turned up as
jihadists in Afghanistan, and are still a problem for Saudi Arabia and
the world today.
Around the same time in Afghanistan, he lent support to the mujahideen,
and later to the Taleban after they came to power.
Saudi Arabia was one of only three countries in the world - beside
Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates - which officially recognised the
Taleban regime.
His government found itself in a difficult situation over the Taleban,
which Saudi-born al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, the royal family's
sworn enemy, was also seen as bankrolling.
'Friend and brother'
King Fahd also lent immense economic support to Pakistan and pumped
tons of free and subsidised oil into the country, which contributed to
economic progress never before experienced there.
But observers say many ordinary Pakistanis were not aware of what King
Fahd did for their country.
The king's significance in the region was illustrated by the manner in
which Afghanistan and Pakistan both responded to his death.
Afghanistan announced three days of official mourning and Pakistan
seven.
Pakistan's President, Pervez Musharraf, praised the king as a
"statesman of high calibre" of the Muslim world.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai described him as a "friend and brother of
the Afghan people".
He said the people of Afghanistan would continue to remember "his
unstinting support during the years of jihad against the Soviets".
The Taleban, too, offered thanks for the king's support and said, had
they been able, they would have sent a delegation to his funeral.
"We share the pain of the Saudi nation over this great loss," Mufti
Latifullah Hakimi, who claims to speak for the Taleban, told the Afghan
Islamic Press.
The complexity of King Fahd's legacy is not difficult to notice in
today's world.
Afghanistan, with support from the Saudis and the West, drove the
Soviets out and achieved its independence.
The same support enabled Pakistan to make huge economic progress.
And yet both countries, and the entire world, are haunted by the threat
posed by Islamic fundamentalism.
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Again, I heard when they dug his grave they stuck oil! Figures the
Islamofascist pig is survived by his pig of an Islamofascist brother.
Follow the money trail strait to the Iaslamonfascist pond scum that
want to kill our children.
hummingbird
mysteriously appeared thru the usenet mist to inform us thus...
But he always had friends in high places in Washington and the
Bush household. What does that tell you?
--
smart men solve problems, wise men avoid them.
Jason P
elbows in oil. So is Halliburton, along with Kellogg-Brown and Root,
In the early 1990s Halliburton was found to be in violation of federal
trade barriers in Iraq and Libya, having sold six pulse neutron
generators to Libya. After having pleaded guilty, the company was fined
$1.2 million, with another $2.61 million in penalties.
<quote>
Allegations of fraud
Allegations of fraud by Halliburton, specifically with regard to its
operations Iraq, have persisted since before the Iraq War. The
associations between U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Halliburton,
had led many to speculate with regard to improprieties and profiteering
from the war.
On June 27, 2005, the Democratic Party held a public committee, aired
on C-SPAN 3, at which former civilian employees based in or
administering operations in Iraq, testified to specific instances of
waste, fraud, and other abuses and irregularities by Halliburton and
its subsidiary Kellogg,_Brown_and_Root (KBR).
Among the senators and representatives present at the hearing were
Byron Dorgan (presiding), Henry Waxman, Frank Lautenberg, and Mark
Dayton.
Among those testifying were Bunny Greenhouse, former Chief Contracting
Officer of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rory Mayberry, former Food
Program Manager for Halliburton subsidiary, and Allan Waller, of the
Lloyd-Owen International security and operations firm.
Greenhouse, who provided the bulk of testimony, spoke for several
minutes about her involvement in the evaluation and crafting of
government Army contracts, and explaining how her superiors undermined
and dismissed her concerns of illegal business practices. "Ultimately
my main was concern was the repeated insistence RIO contract be awarded
to KBR without competitive bidding," Greenhouse said. She testified to
have been given misinformation in answer to her complaints, saying she
was "overtly misled."
Mayberry, still in Iraq, testified by video from questions prepared by
the committee. He said that KBR routinely sold expired food rations to
the Army.
The recorded interviewer asked, "Are you saying that Halliburton
deliberately falsified the number of meals they prepared and then
submitted false claims for reimbursement and that they did this to make
up for past amounts auditors had disallowed?" Mayberry firmly answered
"yes." He said that serving expired food rations was "an everyday
occurrence, sometimes every meal." He also explained that Halliburton
systematically overcharged for the number of meals as well, saying,
"they were charging for 20,000 meals and they were only serving 10,000
meals." Dorgan later commented, "obviously there's no honor here, by a
company that would serve outdated food to our troops in Iraq."
Mayberry also claimed would-be whistleblowers were threatened "to be
sent to Falluja" and other "places under fire" if they talked to media
or governmental oversight officials. In 2003 and 2004, Falluja had been
well known as dangerous for foreign troops and civilians. "I personally
was sent to Falluja for three weeks. The manager told me that I was
being sent away until the auditors were gone, because I had talked to
the auditors," Mayberry said.
"The threat of being sent to a camp under fire was their way of keeping
us quiet. The employees who talked to auditors were sent to camps under
more fire than other camps, and Anaconda." This report led Dorgan and
others to voice considerable outrage.
Allan Waller testified to specific examples of how KBR officials had
conspired in blocking of Lloyd-Owen fuel transports, and using other
coersive means against is competitor. The British Lloyd owen has a
direct contract with the Iraq government to provide fuel to various
parts of the country.
In his introductory remarks, Dorgan explained that Senate Republicans
had blocked any attempts at having a formal bi-partisan hearing,
resulting in a separate committee.
The following is a list of subsidiaries, affiliates, branches, brands
and divisions of Halliburton Co.
* Adute Pty Ltd. (Australia)
* AOC Services Limited - (Jersey, tax haven)
* Antilles Dresser-Rand (tax haven)
* Avalon Financial Services, Ltd. (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* Axelson
* Baroid Caribbean Limited Brown & Root (Overseas) Limited -
(Jersey, tax haven)
* Baroid CIMBAR
* Baroid Drilling Inc
* Baroid Drilling Fluids
* Baroid Drilling Fluids/Plant
* Baroid Filtration
* Baroid Halliburton Offshore Services Inc.
* Baroid IDP
* Baroid of Nigeria Limited
* Baroid Pigmina Industrial E Comercial Ltda
* Baroid Plant
* Baroid Solids Control
* Baroid Tesoro Coastwide Svcs
* Baroid Warehouse
* Beheersmaatschappij Van Aandelen In Textielverwerkende O
(Netherlands)
* Bentonite Performance Minerals
* Bitc (Us) Llc
* Bitc Holdings (Us) Llc
* Bredero Price Holding Bv (Netherlands)
* Breswater Marine Contracting Bv (Netherlands)
* Brown & Root
o Building Co
o Cayman Holdings, Inc.
o Condor Spa (Algeria)
o Construction Pty Ltd. (Australia)
o Environmental
o FWENC
o Government Services
o Industrial Services
o Log Jamss
o Skoda s.r.o.
* Caspian Transco Inc. (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* Cebar Sdn Bhd (Brunei Darussalam)
* C.I. Limited (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* Cimbar Performance Mnrl Division
* CNOOC-Otis Well Comp Services Ltd
* Consorcio Contrina Snc (France)
* Corporacion Mexicana De Mantenimiento Integral Sde Rl De Cv
(Mexico)
* Db Stratabit Gmbh (Germany)
* Deveron Facility
* Devonport Management Limited
* DII Industries
* Dorhold Ltd. (United Kingdom)
* Downhole Motor Services
* Energy Services Group
* Falcon AFB Contract Mgmt Logistics Inc
* Fann Instrument
* G&H Management Llc (United States)
* Georgetown Finance Ltd. (Caymans Islands)
* Goddard SFC JOC
* Granherne Limited
* Granherne Pty Limited
* Grove Foreign Sales Corp. (Barbados, tax haven)
* Grove-Tk Ltd. (United Kingdom)
* Guiberson AVA
* Guiberson Oil Tools
* GVA Consultants AB
* Halliburton Acquisition Company
* Halliburton Afrique S.N.C.
* Halliburton Argentina S. A.
* Halliburton Australia
* Halliburton Aviation Division
* Halliburton Baroid
* Halliburton Baroid Singapore
* Halliburton Benefits Center
* Halliburton Brunei
* Halliburton BV (Netherlands)
o Baroid
o Security DBS
o Sperry Sunn
* Halliburton Camp Facility
* Halliburton Canada Inc.
* Halliburton Canada/Guiberson
* Halliburton Company Austria G.m.b.H.
* Halliburton Company Germany GmbH
* Halliburton Company, Saudi Arabia Branch
* Halliburton Company/Tax Department
* Halliburton del Peru SA
* Halliburton de Venezuela SA
* Halliburton Denmark A/S
* Halliburton Energy Development (Kazakhstan) (Cayman Islands, tax
haven)
* Halliburton Energy Services
o DEG
o Jet Research Center
o Training
o Sdn Bhd
o Special Services
o Technology Center
o Warehouse
o Well Control
* Halliburton Far East Pte Ltd
* Halliburton Geophysical Services (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* Halliburton Global Account Management - ENI
* Halliburton Indonesia
* Halliburton Italiana S.p.A.
* Halliburton Latin America SA
o Base Neiva
o Base Yopal
o Bodega Sperry Sun
o Division Landmark
o Laboratorio Baroid
* Halliburton Limited
* Halliburton Landmark
* Halliburton Logging Services
* Halliburton Logging Svcs Do Brazil-Servicos
* Halliburton Machine Shops
* Halliburton Manufacturing & Services Limited
* Halliburton Measurement Systems
* Halliburton Mfg de Venezuela
* Halliburton National Institutes of Health
* Halliburton Nigeria Limited
* Halliburton Oilfield Services India Limited
* Halliburton Oil Services Vietnam Ltd
* Halliburton Overseas Limited
* Halliburton Papua New Guinea
* Halliburton Reservoir Services
* Halliburton SAS - Paris
* Halliburton SAS - Pau
* Halliburton SAS/PES - Pau
* Halliburton Security DBS
* Halliburton Shell Project
* Halliburton Sperry-Sun Tunis
* Halliburton Subsea
* Halliburton Travel Division
* Halliburton Trinidad Limited
* Halliburton Jet Research Center
* Halliburton West Africa Ltd. (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* Halliburton Westport Tech Ctr
* Hall/William Mercer Ltd-Pension
* Halson Financial Svcs. (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* Hanson Division
* Harbison - Walker Rfctories Division
* Hbr Energy, Inc.
* Hbr Nl Holdings, Llc
* Hed (Indonesia), Inc.
* Hellenic Shipyards
* Hes Corp.
* Hes Holding, Inc.
* Hes Mexico Holdings, Llc
* Hes Oilfield Operations (Nigeria), Inc.
* Hewitt Associates
* HGS enterprises Inc. (Panama, tax haven)
* HLS Asia Limited
* Hobbymarkt Capelle Bv (Netherlands)
* Hobbymarkt Capelle De Mexico, Sa De Cv (Mexico)
* Howard Humphreys (T) Ltd
* Industrial Instrument Division
* International Admin. Svcs. (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* International Oil Field Engr. (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* Ipem Developments Ltd. (United Kingdom)
* Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR)
o Americas (BRES)
o Amoco
o Atco
o Balden
o Bonney Island
o Braun
o Caldwell
o Cardinal
o Caledonia Ltd.
o Celanese
o Chatman
o Ciba
o Collins
o Contrina
o Contrina de Jose
o Dunbar
o DuPont
o DYKES
o Eastman
o Edmonton
o Environfuels
o Exxon Chem
o Exxon/Mobil
o Far East Pte Ltd
o Fort Benning JOC
o Georgia Pac
o Gonzales
o Joe D Hughes
o John Aylward
o KBRCMSB
o Optimum Group
o Phenol-Maintenance
o Philip Morris
o QGPC Project
o Shell Chem
o Sincor
o Sonatrach
o Tampa Electric
o Tanura
o Technip-Q-Chem Project
o TECSA
o Tokyo Representative Office
o Union Carbide
o Wake
o Weyerhaeuser
* Kellogg-Chiyoda Services (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* Kellogg Joint Venture
* Kinhill Kramer (Vanuatu, tax haven)
* Kinhill Kramer (Solomon, tax haven)
* Landmark Concurrent Solusi Indonesia
* Landmark Graphics Corporation - www.lgc.com
o GeoGraphix - www.geographix.com
o Global Account Management - ENI
o Munro-Garrett International Ltd
o Paris
o Petrodata
* Laut OAC Sdn Bhd
* LMK Resources (Halliburton's Landmark Graphics Division
acquired its majority interest in 2001)
* Magic Earth, Inc.
* Mashhor Well Services Sdn Bhd (Brunei Darussalam)
* Masoneilan International, Llc
* Measurement & Controls
* Metro Fast Track II
* M I Drilling Fluids
* MW Kellogg Limited
* MWKL Field Services (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* Monoflo Inc.
* Mono Pumps (Australia) Ltd. (Australia)
* Mono Pumps Ltd. (United Kingdom)
* New Iberia Threading Machining
* NUMAR Corporation -Sales
* NUS Laboratory
* Oilfield Innovations, Cv (Netherlands)
* Oilfield Services Receivable Corp.
* Omega Pump
* Otis Marine Maintenance Division
* Overseas Administration Servcs (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* Paragon Engineering Svcs Inc
* Petrodata As (Norway)
* Petroleum Engineering Services Norge As (Norway)
* Petroleum and Industrial Maintenance Co. Ltd (Cayman Islands, tax
haven)
* Professional Resources Ltd. (Bermuda, tax haven)
* Promzona 40, UPTOK Usinskstroi
* Property and Casualty Insurance
* P.T. Baroid Indonesia
* P.T. Halliburton Indonesia
* P.T. Indokor Sperry-Sun
* Pump Division
* Rockwater Holdings Ltd. (United Kingdom)
* Rockwater Ltd. (United Kingdom)
* Rotary Brown & Root
* Saudi Halliburton Logging Llc (Saudi Arabia)
* Seaforth Maritime Ltd. (United Kingdom)
* Security DBS
* Security DBS (MEM) E.C. (Bahrain, tax haven)
* Security Rock Bits & Drlg Tls
* Service Employees Int'l Inc. (Cayman Islands, tax haven)
* Servicios Halliburton de Venezuela SA
* Shaw International Ltd. (Barbados, tax haven)
* Sperry-Sun
* Sperry Sun Saudi Company Ltd. (Saudi Arabia)
* Studebaker Worthington (U.K.) Ltd. (United Kingdom)
* Subsahara Serivces Inc.
* Sub Sea Offshore (Holdings) Ltd. (United Kingdom)
* Subsea 7 - www.subsea7.com (Halliburton's 50% share in Subsea 7
was sold to Siem offshore in 2005)
* Swaco Geolograph
* Waterloo Plant & Sales Office
* Waukesha Engine Division
* Wayne Division
* Wellstream Inc.
* Wellstream Ltd. (United Kingdom)
* Western Geophysical Services
* Westport Technology Center Intl
* Wheatley Valve Division
* Vann Systems: now called Perforating Solutions
* Zone Industrial Halliburton EDF