Iraq War Contractors

Is Halliburton Forgiven and Forgotten?

Pratap Chatterjee | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business


Pratap Chatterjee

How did Halliburton, once branded the ugly stepchild of Dick Cheney and a poster child of war profiteering, receive absolution from anti-war activists and the media?

AIG, Others Routinely Denying Care To Contractors Injured In Iraq, Afghanistan

ProPublica | T. Christian Miller and Doug Smith | Posted 05.18.2009 | Business


Civilian workers who suffered devastating injuries while supporting the U.S. war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan have come home to a grinding battle fo...

Death of My Friend's Son in Iraq Finally Sparks Pentagon Probe

Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics


Greg Mitchell

The Pentagon has just ordered electrical inspections of all buildings in Iraq maintained by KBR, the major military contractor.

Jason Linkins

U.S. Military Contractor 'Used Armored Cars To Transport Prostitutes'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics


Over at Muckraked, we get news that "a panel of whistleblowers" testifying before a Senate committee yesterday dropped a dime on their employer, milit...

2005 Use of Riot Gas by Blackwater Leaves Questions

NY Times | James Risen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically crowded with cars, Iraqi civilians and United States military...

Pentagon Won't Probe KBR Rape Charges

ABC's The Blotter | Justin Rood | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The Defense Department's top watchdog has declined to investigate allegations that an American woman working under an Army contract in Iraq was raped ...

ABC Obtains First Images Of Blackwater Firefight

ABC News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


ABC News has obtained the first images of the controversial September 16 shooting incident involving Blackwater security forces. The still images, t...

$6 Billion In Iraq Contracts Under Criminal Investigation

New York Times | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Military officials said Thursday that contracts worth $6 billion to provide essential supplies to American troops in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan -- i...