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 <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cross-posted at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.myleftwing.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=16381&quot;&gt;My Left Wing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sigir.mil/&quot;&gt; Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR)&lt;/a&gt; is set to publish a blistering report sometime later this spring that exposes the failure of two U.S. companies charged with repairing oil meters on Iraqi pipelines responsible for calculating the flow of billions of dollars worth of crude oil.  U.S. contractors in Iraq, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.halliburton.com/&quot;&gt;Halliburton Inc.&lt;/a&gt; of Houston, Texas and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.parsons.com/default.asp&quot;&gt;Parsons Corporation&lt;/a&gt; of Pasadena, California are expected to fair badly in the report documenting the companies multiple failures to complete their work &amp;ndash; started back in March 2003 shortly after the U.S. led takedown of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.diatribune.com/halliburton-suspected-aiding-oil-smugglers-iraq&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 17:46:56 -0600</pubDate>
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