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ABC News: Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR
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.
“I said, ‘Dad, I’ve been raped. I don’t know what to do. I’m in this container, and I’m not able to leave,’” she said. Her father called their congressman, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas.
“We contacted the State Department first,” Poe told ABCNews.com, “and told them of the urgency of rescuing an American citizen” — from her American employer.
Poe says his office contacted the State Department, which quickly dispatched agents from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to Jones’ camp, where they rescued her from the container.
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Lovely. Just lovely.
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Date: 2007-12-10 07:50 pm (UTC)The US Government gave her rape kit to Halliburton, who promptly lost it.
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Date: 2007-12-10 08:00 pm (UTC)I'm just so astounded that such a stand-up company would do such a thing.
Seriously - they should be arrested and get life for the crime and the cover-up.
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Date: 2007-12-23 12:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-10 09:30 pm (UTC)She shouldn't have been there....
Date: 2007-12-22 10:03 pm (UTC)Re: She shouldn't have been there....
Date: 2007-12-23 12:35 am (UTC)That attitude is quite at home among the barbarians of the middle east.
Any "boy" that acts like that is an animal and needs to be euthanized.
Dirty little truth of life my ass. What a fucking moron.
And then you decide to call her a whore for getting raped. You're an animal.
Re: She shouldn't have been there....
Date: 2007-12-23 08:53 am (UTC)Although... since she's actually the wife of an American service man, I'm not sure she screwed all of them individually.
No, Mr. Anonymous, you're absolutely right in your assumption that being in a war zone, even in the locked down combat-free green zone, gives men free reign (and rightly so!) to behave like monsters. No, you're correct, that men are simply violent animals, and women should constantly be on guard, even while AT WORK, to avoid being savagely mauled by one of the pit-bulls we call "men."
Personally, I had no idea men were such stupid, violent, rapacious monsters. The idea of keeping you all in little cages seems far more appealing, now that you've made it clear that it is the nature of men to be little more than animals.