Gang Rape Cover-Up by Halliburton/KBR

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This post, written by Steven Reynolds, originally appeared on The All Spin Zone

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.

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This is terrible if true. It seems like I remember hearing about this though.

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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.

Hmmm..... Me thinks alcohol was involved. In that case, if she left for medical treatment, and alcohol was found in her system, she would rightfully be out of a job.

There is most likely more to this story than what is revealed.

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BUT, I will say that if her story is true, then it is truly horrible... I find it hard to grasp that people can be so evil to each other.

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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.

Hmmm..... Me thinks alcohol was involved. In that case, if she left for medical treatment, and alcohol was found in her system, she would rightfully be out of a job.

There is most likely more to this story than what is revealed.

I'm wondering why she was held in a container for 24hrs without food or water? Company punishment policy?

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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.

Hmmm..... Me thinks alcohol was involved. In that case, if she left for medical treatment, and alcohol was found in her system, she would rightfully be out of a job.

There is most likely more to this story than what is revealed.

I'm wondering why she was held in a container for 24hrs without food or water? Company punishment policy?

Steven, most people don't know that a shipping container, or hooch, is the form of housing in Iraq for KBR. Its not the rusty shipping container that you see on a cargo ship.

Being "held" for her protection, may very well be KBR policy after an incident occurs.

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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.

Hmmm..... Me thinks alcohol was involved. In that case, if she left for medical treatment, and alcohol was found in her system, she would rightfully be out of a job.

There is most likely more to this story than what is revealed.

I'm wondering why she was held in a container for 24hrs without food or water? Company punishment policy?

Steven, most people don't know that a shipping container, or hooch, is the form of housing in Iraq for KBR. Its not the rusty shipping container that you see on a cargo ship.

Being "held" for her protection, may very well be KBR policy after an incident occurs.

Hmm...interesting. I didn't see the interview, but I'm wondering if she's explained to the press what transpired. Holding her for her own protection would make sense if she had been attended to with a medical examine, provided food and water. Perhaps she was. I'm wondering what evidence was collected...possible DNA....unless the guys aren't denying they had intercourse with her, but saying it was consensual.

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This sort of thing makes me so angry!

I just did a short documentary on this same topic but I can't air it. Even though I did informed consent I'd rather not get sued.

Edited December 11, 2007 by OlivianWaleed