Iraqi Firms Win Work At Base Near Balad

摘要

A concrete plant at a burgeoning U.S. military base under construction near Balad, Iraq, shut down production Jan. 21, after deliveries of sand and gravel dwindled to nothing in response to recent attacks on drivers making deliveries there. It is about 70 kilometers north of Baghdad in the Tigris River plain. Gunmen killed a Halliburton KBR driver making a delivery Jan. 19. Insurgents killed two other drivers hauling sand and gravel the previous week. The independent haulers were shot on a 14- km-long road connecting the base to the main Baghdad-Tikrit highway.