Three Iraqis were wounded when rockets were fired at a heavily protected building belonging to the state-owned Northern Oil Company (NOC) in Kirkuk. "At dinner time two rockets hit the NOC cultural and social club, which the Americans and KBR employees use as a canteen," police officer Salam Jalal said. Kellogg Brown Root (KBR) is a subsidiary of US oil services giant Halliburton, which has netted a controversial US government contract to help rebuild Iraq's shattered oil industry. Halliburton was run by US Vice President Dick Cheney from 1995 to 2000.
| Which has nothing to do with the rockets. |
The NOC club is situated within a zone of the northern Iraqi oil city that is heavily protected by an Iraqi security service trained by a South African private company.
| Did Cheney used to run that, too? |
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