Halliburton: Texas to Dubai

Remember Halliburton, the company who recieved billions of US government dollars in no-bid contracts to go overcharge US soldiers for food and gas in Iraq? Do you think this company whom the US trusted, via its subsidiary KBR, to wash soldier's clothes and latrines would be grateful to the government, or at least to former CEO Dick Cheney, and maintain its corporate headquarters in the US and paying US taxes?
Well, Halliburton is shifting its HQ from Texas to Dubai.

Watch a short video of the New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Wright in his one-man show, “My Trip to Al-Qaeda,” at the Culture Project, in New York City. Wright has covered Al Qaeda for the magazine; last year, he published the book “The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.” In the course of his work on the roots and the rise of Islamic terrorism, Wright has conducted more than six hundred interviews and travelled to Egypt, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and much of Western Europe. The play, which he wrote and performs, is a first-person account of his experiences, and examines, among other themes, the tension between his roles as journalist and citizen.

Along the (soon to be) 160,000 military US troops in Iraq, there are about 100,000 private contractors, including 48,000 private security forces. That's the second largest contingent stationed in Iraq, after the US military. They do not respond to the military chain of command, and are accountable to no one. See the incisive FRONTLINE documentary on these Private Warriors.