HALLIBURTON hightails annual meeting from Houston to Duncan, Oklahoma

[Bluebear]

BAAAAAWK buk buk buk buk buk BAAAAAAAAWK, Mr. Cheney!



HOUSTON (Reuters) - Halliburton Co., the U.S. company that has been the target of bitter protests for its work in Iraq, has moved its shareholders meeting from its Houston headquarters to the Oklahoma town where it was founded.

The annual meeting usually draws hundreds of protesters and are often marred by violent clashes with police around the Houston hotel where Halliburton management meets with investors.

Halliburton's KBR unit is the Pentagon's largest private contractor in Iraq and has been heavily criticised for the no-bid contracts it received for much of that work.

But the oil services company, which was formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney and maintains close Bush administration ties, denied the protests were behind its decision to move the May 17 meeting to Duncan, a city best known as a stop on the Chisholm Trail, a cattle artery of the Old West.

"Absolutely not. We are holding our meeting in Duncan because we are a company that values our tradition and spirit of innovation -- much of which was started in Duncan more than 80 years ago. :rofl: We are excited to showcase this heritage for our shareholders," Halliburton spokeswoman Cathy Mann said on Thursday.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-03-18T025448Z_01_N17408743_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-ENERGY-HALLIBURTON-AGM.XML

[bobbieinok]

1. ???founded in Oklahoma?????? Oh, no!!!!!!!!!

[Bluebear]

2. lol

Not your fault :)