Halliburton moves annual meeting to Okla. town

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.

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I know a multitude of bible beaters in the Duncan area that will keep Halliburton safe and cozy. :puke:

Where someone would not be adverse to taking a few potshots at protestors, or the cops would not be adverse about busting some commie pinko heads in the name of freedom.

and since there's no large news outlets there it probably won't get the coverage it did in Houston. Protester protection isn't even a concern in a place like this. I'm sure there will be more violence than normal, and it won't be by the protesters. The townsfolk will have an additional hunting season added to their calender this year. Yippee! I'm a 'gonna get me one a them thar TREEHUGGERS!