Why Is Halliburton Building Internment Camps?
By Sheila Musaji On January 24th it was announced [1] that a subsidiary of Halliburton KBR was awarded a $385 million contract by the Department of Homeland Security to build detention centers in the U.S. These centers might be used for immigration, or for disaster relief, or vaguely … to support the rapid development of new programs. As early as September of 2002, John Ashcroft discussed internment of even American citizens who were deemed enemy combatants [2a] and Peter Kirsanow of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission said that he could foresee a scenario in which the public would demand internment camps for Arab Americans if Arab terrorists strike again in this country. If theres a future terrorist attack in America and they come from the same ethnic group that attacked the World Trade Center, you can forget about civil rights. [2 b] “Almost certainly this is preparation for a roundup after the next 9/11 for Mid-Easterners, Muslims and possibly dissenters,” says Daniel Ellsberg, a for