Halliburton Questioned on $1.8 Billion Iraq Work.

Pentagon auditors have concluded that  Halliburton Co. failed to adequately account for more than $1.8  billion of work in Iraq and Kuwait, the Wall Street Journal  said on Wednesday, citing a Pentagon report. The amount represents 43 percent of the $4.18 billion that  Houston-based Halliburton's Kellogg Brown & Root unit has  billed the Pentagon to feed and house troops in the region, the  newspaper said. It said the findings in the 60-page Pentagon audit report,  dated Aug. 4 but not publicly released are likely to increase  pressure on the U.S. government to withhold hundreds of  millions of dollars of payments to Halliburton. This, it said, potentially threatens the services that KBR  provides U.S. troops and other personnel in Iraq and Kuwait. Vice President Dick Cheney was Halliburton's chief  executive from 1995 to 2000. [more]