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KBR/HALLIBURTON WORKER GANG RAPED, LOCKED IN SHIPPING CONTAINER!!!

By Foxx on  From journals.aol.com
      JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED THIS!!! UPDATE:  KBR/HALIBURTON WORKER RAPED, LOCKED IN  SHIPPING CONTAINER!!!   Posted by Cara , Feministe at 12:51 PM on August 8, 2008. "It shows that when it comes to "RAPE" COVER ~ UP,"  KBR knows what the hell it's doing, and knows that no one will even bother trying to stop them."   2 COMMENTS Jamie Leigh Jones   KBR, the defense contractor doing a lot of heavy lifting in the upholding of our occupation of Iraq, has banned the...Read Full Story

Heroine: Jamie Leigh Jones

By bandeg on  From latesthotsexiest.blogspot.com
WASHINGTON — Four years ago, Jamie Leigh Jones, a 20-year old Texas contract employee working in Iraq, was drugged, stripped, beaten and gang-raped by her co-workers on her fourth day in country. She finally managed to get a phone call out from the shipping container where she was being detained — by her employer, KBR, then a Halliburton company. That call to her father led to a call to herRead Full Story

Blog Against Sexual Violence Day - 4/3/08

By barbarany_9 on  From barbarany_9.blogspot.com
Today is Blog Against Sexual Violence Day and I found this gem. Get out your barf bags. At Halliburton/KBR, sexual assault is just part of the workplace experience for women by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen Like many viewers, I watched this ABC 20/20 report when it first aired in December with jaws-open, eyes-bugging horror. It told the story of two women workers for Halliburton/KBR who had been sent to Iraq. There, one, Jamie Lee Jones, a young computer tech, was gang-raped on her fourth day by...Read Full Story

Halliburton Exposed: Dick’s Dirty Little Secrets

By cmacivor on  From cmacivor.wordpress.com
A new Book is out by Pratap Chaterjee exposing Cheney’s dirty little Halliburton secrets, including: •    The network of kickbacks, bribes and fraud involving employees and subcontractors of Halliburton/KBR in Kuwait and Iraq. •    The inordinate number of no-bid government contracts that Halliburton/KBR has secured. •    How Halliburton/KBR botched the repair of Iraq’s oil fields using Iraq’s own money. •    The role Halliburton/KBR’s negligence has played in the deaths of American...Read Full Story

ABC Brian Ross Investigates - Jamie Leigh Jones Has Her Day in Court

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Former KBR contractor says she was gang-raped by fellow Americans in Iraq. Add this to your queue Added: Fri Jun 24 22:30:06 UTC 2011 Air date: Fri Jun 24 00:00:00 UTC 2011 Duration: 06:44Read Full Story
A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit brought against KBR Inc. and Halliburton Co. by the families of two convoy drivers killed in a 2004 insurgent attack in Iraq. The U.S. Court of Appeal for the 5th Circuit, …  
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War goes on as contractors stay behindHouston ChronicleThe Labor Department data shows no deaths for KBR, or for Halliburton, KBR's former parent company. But it does list 127 deaths and about 29000 injuries of workers for Service Employees International Inc., a KBR subsidiary that's located in the Cayman ...and more »  
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10-20202, 10-20371. For Fisher et al: Thomas Scott Allen. For KBR and Halliburton: Lawrence Ebner of McKenna, Long & Aldridge. (Reporting by Terry Baynes; editing by Andre Grenon) Keywords: KBR/IRAQ COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2012. All rights reserved.  
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Halliburton declined to comment on the litigation and said KBR was handling the defense of the case. Thomas Scott Allen, a lawyer for the victims' relatives, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. On Monday, injured convoy driver Reginald ...  
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KBR Inc. (KBR) and its former corporate parent, Halliburton Co. (HAL), won’t face a jury on claims they sent unarmed civilian convoy drivers into an Iraqi battle zone in 2004, knowing the workers would be injured or killed, an appeals court ...  
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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters)—A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit brought against KBR Inc. and Halliburton Co. by the families of two convoy drivers killed in a 2004 insurgent attack in Iraq. The U.S. Court of Appeal for the 5th ...  
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Press TVDOD: Reported sexual assaults up at 3 academiesPress TVJamie Leigh Jones says she was gang-raped while working for Halliburton/KBR in Iraq . Jones claims that after she reported her rape, the company put her in a shipping container and warned her that she would lose her job if she left Iraq for medical ...and more »  
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