Gang Rape, Brought to You by Halliburton and KBR
Yes, a gang-rape in Baghdad, by Halliburton and KBR employees with a Halliburton employee as a victim. The cover-up has been swallowed, if not actively abetted, by US personnel there. This should result in massive investigations and firings. In Bush World it will probably result in renewed Halliburton contracts and medals for their workers.
There’s not much one can say to increase the disgust that this story is going to serve up to the American public on ABC’s 20/20 in a couple nights. A young American woman working for Halliburton was gang raped by her fellow employees, then Halliburton covered up the crime and threatened the woman if she chose to report it. Evidently the US government, such good friends of Halliburton, is supposedly taking part in the cover-up, evidently favoring Halliburton over a gang-raped citizen. Here’s the report, but the video is on TV in a couple days:
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.
“It felt like prison,” says Jones, who told her story to ABC News as part of an upcoming “20/20″ investigation. “I was upset; I was curled up in a ball on the bed; I just could not believe what had happened.”
Finally, Jones says, she convinced a sympathetic guard to loan her a cell phone so she could call her father in Texas.
You know, that sounds like kidnapping to me. The rest of the article shows how evidence was taken by Halliburton employees, and subsequently disappeared. It shows the United States government refusing to comment, and also refusing to bring charges, thus forcing the victim here to go to civil court to redress her extreme grievances.
I can’t say more than that my government is supposed to be better than this, but time after time Bush and Company has shown itself without morals of any kind. We should all be outraged.
Holding her for 24 hours without water is worse than kidnapping, it is torture, and in a hot climate, could be fatal.
well well well, can’t say i’m surprised, and i agree with what roy says.
i wonder what would have happened had she died…no doubt that would be covered up too. talk about your culture of corruption. rape is a big problem with female soldiers too, and it’s swept under the rug. rape is still not really considered a crime by a huge portion of the world population.
it is totally disgusting, i really could puke. maybe congress will finally pass some laws to make the mercenaries accountable. i mean WHO THE FUCK THOUGHT MERCENARIES OF ALL PEOPLE SHOULD BE IMMUNE FROM LAWS? of course bush will veto it, or block all evidence under the guise of national security. in fact, i would not be surprised if this case is thrown out of court before any evidence is heard. the money flow must be protected at any and all cost. when will we impeach the motherfucker already? we have to take away bush’s pardon power. and i don’t care who did the raping, bush is an accomplice, as is all of congress, frankly, for handing over the funds to sub-human killing machines.
i wrote the above before even reading the article. after reading it i am even more incensed, and it goes double for each and every member of congress who handed these animals a dime - they are accomplices to this crime. in the united states companies are required to provide a safe working environment, free of sexual harrassment (still a fucking joke in this country, and no surprise if you read some of the comments saying she deserved it. like she shouldn’t work or talk to men if she’s pretty), yet kbr is free from these requirements? and the contracts require workers to give up their rights to petition a court of law? how could that contract be legal? and halliburton wins 80% of their cases in arbitration - well duh since it seems in this country the expensive lawyers win every time now that the courts are filled with judges who don’t “believe” in the laws of the land. how did it get this far and when will we the people do something about it?
just saw this, more evidence of what the world really thinks of women. yeah, you’ve come a long way baby.
http://tinyurl.com/2zhf3m
Maybe KBR will say it’s her fault because she wasn’t wearing a burqah?