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(From AP Worldstream)
Byline: MATT KELLEY
The largest U.S. contractor in Iraq, Halliburton Co., has passed the US$10 billion (A7.5 billion) mark in work orders from the American Army for services supporting troops and rebuilding the country's oil industry.
The Army has ordered US$8.3 billion (A6.2 billion) worth of work from Halliburton under a contract to support soldiers with meals, housing, laundry and other services. Halliburton got US$2.5 billion (A1.9 billion) more in work from the Army Corps of Engineers to put out oil well fires and shore up Iraq's dilapidated oil infrastructure.
Allegations of financial misdeeds, including…