Algeria bombing kills one, wounds Westerners

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A roadside bomb beside a bus carrying oil workers on Sunday killed the Algerian driver and wounded nine foreigners, including four Britons and an American, in an Algiers suburb favoured by expatriates.

The bombing, the second near the Alerian capital in six weeks, took place in a heavily protected upmarket neighbourhood where some government ministers live as well as the Sheraton Hotel, where several foreign companies have their offices.

"I was in a bus when I heard a big explosion. Then we heard gunfire," Mohammed Aziouz, an 18-year-old student travelling in another bus nearby at the time of the late afternoon attack, told Reuters.

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Residents said the bus was ferrying employees of Brown Root Condor, a joint venture of Halliburton subsidiary Kellog, Brown and Root and Condor Engineering, an affiliate of Algerian state energy group Sonatrach, Africa's largest company by revenue.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10267554.htm

and the link

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Assailants hurled a bomb and shot at two vehicles carrying employees of an affiliate of U.S. company Halliburton near Algiers Sunday, killing one driver and injuring nine people.

The driver killed was Algerian. The injured included one American, several Britons, one Canadian, one Lebanese and one Algerian, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Eight were treated in a nearby hospital and released, while one remained hospitalized. The statement did not indicate the remaining patient's nationality.

The attack threatened to stain the oil-rich North African nation's international security image just as it is enjoying an oil boom and increased foreign investment after a bloody insurgency that wracked Algeria in the 1990s.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

Several employees of BRC, or Brown & Root-Condor, were heading from their offices to a Sheraton Hotel where they are housed in the town of Bouchaoui, nine miles west of Algiers, when they were attacked in the early evening.

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KBR Inc. is an independent, publicly traded subsidiary of Houston-based oil services contractor Halliburton Co., once run by Vice President Dick Cheney.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-af/2006/dec/10/121000655.html

Will Haliburton cover their health insurance?

"Halliburton Co., once run by Vice President Dick Cheney."

I am so tired of this misinformation.

Cheney was, at most, a figurehead CEO.

Anne Armstrong shoe-horned him past the BoD of Halliburton over much protest.

Cheney is just a well-connected, unsophisticated slob.

I know more about that puke than I wish to know.
EVERY move he made was disastrous (the acquisition of Dresser Industries, for one).

Bus is drafting a bill to send federal workers to Iraq to fill the jobs that the contractors who worked there, and are pulling out were doing. They have tried to recruit workers from the government but they cant' get volunteers..(wonder why). So now he is going to send clerical and other workers to fill the positions that Halliburton and Bechtel were doing. He is going to give them a "tax break" to compensate for the extra expense and danger. Tax break...sending a civilian clerk who makes 30 thousand a year to replace a Halliburton who made 100 thousand. Boy would bush save money.

But I suppose the new congress is not going to approve this. By the want since bush's two daughters are teachers why not send them to help out...oh oh I forgot teachers were threatened, lets that out.

Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061211/wl_nm/algeria_attack_dc