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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 --- 29 days ago http://homelandsecurityus.com/node/1419
| By Sean Osborne, Associate Director 04 AUG 2008: A clarification was issued by KBR management late yesterday afternoon regarding the ban on personal cell phone use by its OCONUS deployed employees. The clarification states " ... the direction from [redacted] to all [KBR] employees in the Middle East and Central Asia is that you not use your personal cell phone . You can remove the battery and store it. " 03 AUG 2008: Yesterday CNN reported that the Houston-based U.S. defense contractor KBR Inc. (formerly Kellogg Brown and Root) banned its employees in Iraq from using their private cell phones. In its report CNN appears to make the assumption that the cell phone ban was the result of a "security breach" involving one of KBR's employees. That kind of a security breach is more commonly known as a breach of Operational Security (OPSEC) guidelines. However, CNN's assumption is completely erroneous. While the ban is a uniquely KBR initiative, the cause of the ban has been known by the Northeast Intelligence Network since early Saturday morning and efforts to corroborate the KBR rationale have been successful. KBR banned cell phones in Iraq specifically due to a perceived significant threat to its personnel and facilities based on Forward Operations Bases (FOBs). A KBR communication stated the following in the directive to all employees: "Earlier today I sent out a message prohibiting the use of cell phones. At that time I was not able to shar ... |
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