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Posted by: kwflatbed

This is and is not idiot news,they are idiots if it happened.



(ABC News, "20/20") More Photos

By BRIAN ROSS, MADDY SAUER & JUSTIN ROOD

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.
According to her lawsuit, Jones was raped by "several attackers who first drugged her, then repeatedly raped and injured her, both physically and emotionally."
Jones told ABCNews.com that an examination by Army doctors showed she had been raped "both vaginally and anally," but that the rape kit disappeared after it was handed over to KBR security officers.

Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR
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Posted by: JW12

They can not get tried in the US so I hope she wins the lawsuit.. Scumbags.

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Posted by: Foxy85

Rape kit destroyed after it was handed over to KBR....idiots....

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Posted by: Redleg13D

I said it the entire time I was over there and I'll say it now.

KBR = wasted $$$

Yeah, a broken AC unit in soldier's living quaters [on a 120+ day] is "not an emergency so we can't get over [about .5 mile away, still on the FOB] and fix it right now". Kick Back and Relax!

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Posted by: Gil

I can see it happening and it is a sad story but I think her foundation that she started is a bit limited...

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Since the attacks, Jones has started a nonprofit foundation called the Jamie Leigh Foundation, which is dedicated to helping victims who were raped or sexually assaulted overseas while working for government contractors or other corporations.

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Posted by: SinePari

Anyone who has been in the military knows the supply sergeant who was never around, the finance clerk who was doing her nails and the truck mechanic who got busted smoking weed are the current employees of KBR.

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