(Kuwait's) Agility could sign $2.5 billion U.S. army (logistics) deal: report

[UpInArms]

Source: Reuters

KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait's Agility (AGLT.KW), the Gulf's biggest logistics provider by market value, is set to sign a $2.5 billion deal with the U.S. army in July, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

The deal would include supplying food and providing logistics services, Arabic-language daily al-Seyassah said, without providing a source.

Kuwaiti food retailer Sultan Center Food Co (SCFK.KW), which is affiliated with Agility, would be the biggest beneficiary of the deal by providing food to the U.S. army, the paper said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080608/bs_nm/agility_deal_dc

[asjr]

1. They should have tried Picadilly first.

There must be something in all these foreign corporations getting our trade for Cheney and Bush.

[dipsydoodle]

2. providing food to the U.S. army

and doubtless using slave labour to do so.

[Wizard777]

3. Not until Kuwait has democracy!

In Kuwait it is illegal to form a political party.

[The Stranger]

5. Do you have a link for that statement?

[Wizard777]

6. formation of political parties is in practice illegal but is not forbidden by law

Scroll down to political parties. "None"

[Richardo]

4. What. The. Fuck.

It's not enough we send all our energy money there? Now we have to send FOOD money? We're the largest single producer of food in the world for God's sake.

November can't come fast enough.

[Angleae]

7. This is normal worldwide

All military units stationed overseas have to buy food as locally as possible. I'm not sure if it's US law or DoD regulation but it is on paper.