Daily Kos: The real reason Halliburton's moving to Dubai

by theyrereal

Sun Mar 11, 2007 at 06:27:44 PM PDT

In one of my first diaries on Dailykos, I wrote about how Halliburton was skirting the laws of the United States by having its "affiliate" in Dubai act as a "launderer" of business products and money so that it could sell illegal items to illegal countries:

Most people probably don't realize that Halliburton, our Vice President's company, has been trading for years with most of the folks on the United States' "axis of evil" list, including Iran, Saddam's Iraq, and Libya.

One of the simple ways around this is to simply export the illegal stuff to the United Arab Emirates, where trading activity accounts for the biggest single chunk (16.5%) of a $20 billion economy, to be re-exported to the offending countries.

It seems in light of today's announcement that Halliburton is brazely moving their headquarters to Dubai, that now might be a good time to revisit this damning information .....