{"id":536,"date":"2004-03-09T02:43:16","date_gmt":"2004-03-09T09:43:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-03-09T02:43:16","modified_gmt":"2004-03-09T09:43:16","slug":"halliburton-stiffs-food-contractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/09\/halliburton-stiffs-food-contractor\/","title":{"rendered":"Halliburton Stiffs Food Contractor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nasdaq.com\/news\/newsStory.aspx?&#038;cpath=20040308\\ACQDJON200403081946DOWJONESDJONLINE000986.htm\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. food subcontractor<\/a> that runs 10% of the dining facilities in Iraq says it hasn&#8217;t been paid by a Halliburton Co. subsidiary for months and is threatening to stop serving hot meals to U.S. troops stationed there, NBC News reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The company, Event Source, said it&#8217;s owed $87 million by Halliburton. Halliburton has a multi-billion dollar contract to feed and house the troops in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Event Source claims not having been paid since November, NBC reported. The company prepared U.S. President George W. Bush&#8217;s Thanksgiving dinner in Baghdad during his surprise visit there last year. The $87 million collectible includes payment for the president&#8217;s Thanksgiving dinner with the troops, NBC reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does that include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_844321.html\" target=\"_blank\">the plastic turkey?<\/a><P><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/images\/web\/77885.jpg\"\n\n\n\n\n<p align=\"right\"><i><small><a href=\"http:\/\/unfairwitness.blogspot.com\/2004_03_07_unfairwitness_archive.html#107880007958474982\" target=\"_blank\">Cross-posted from UnFairWitness<\/a><\/small><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. food subcontractor that runs 10% of the dining facilities in Iraq says it hasn&#8217;t been paid by a Halliburton Co. subsidiary for months and is threatening to stop serving hot meals to U.S. troops stationed there, NBC News reported Monday. The company, Event Source, said it&#8217;s owed $87 million by Halliburton. Halliburton has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}