by Isabel
A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident.
Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she’d be out of a job.
“Don’t plan on working back in Iraq. There won’t be a position here, and there won’t be a position in Houston,” Jones says she was told.
In a lawsuit filed in federal court against Halliburton and its then-subsidiary KBR, Jones says she was held in the shipping container for at least 24 hours without food or water by KBR, which posted armed security guards outside her door, who would not let her leave.
h/t Alison @ Bread and Roses
Update: Jeff Fecke @ Shakesville has more
h/t Croghan27 @ Bread and Roses & Kyle @ Comments From Left Field
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As Gods: Spreading American Values Across The World » Comments from Left Field // December 10, 2007 at 7:17 pm
[...] to Isabel of Bastard Logic for linking in, and as Matt points out, the Canooks (sp?) are on this story as well. Share and [...]
Prole // December 10, 2007 at 10:48 pm
OMFG. *sob…
This is truly repulsive.
Jon Swift // December 11, 2007 at 9:15 am
Jamie Leigh Jones Undermines the War Effort
If protecting America from terrorists means subjecting a woman to something akin to a second rape, then some are prepared to do their duty.
albuquerque security guard company blog // May 5, 2008 at 1:56 pm
This is BS. Their contract should be revoked.