Idaho-Based Co. Halts Iraq Project

 Idaho-Based Co. Halts Iraq Project 
 

BOISE, Idaho - A Boise-based engineering and construction company has
suspended work on power line towers being built in northern Iraq
because two engineers for a subcontractor were killed and two others
wounded in a weekend attack. 

   
Washington Group International will re-evaluate security before
resuming work on the project, said spokesman Jack Herrmann. 

The engineers, employed by Omu Electric Co. of Seoul, South Korea,
were ambushed Sunday near Samarra. U.S. officials said it was part of
a campaign to undermine international support for the U.S.-led
occupation of Iraq. 

Construction of the transmission towers is part of a $110 million
contract Washington Group won from the U.S. government to rebuild
Iraq's power infrastructure. 

About three dozen Washington Group employees working on that and other
projects under the contract remain in Iraq, Herrmann said. 

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