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Title: Alleged Halliburton gang rape survivor says she was given 'special drink'
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Published: Dec 15, 2007
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Post Date: 2007-12-15 22:53:24 by tom007
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Alleged Halliburton gang rape survivor says she was given 'special drink' David Edwards and Jason Rhyne Published: Friday December 14, 2007 del.icio.us del.icio.us Print This Email This The former Halliburton/KBR employee accusing the company of attempting to cover up her gang-rape in Iraq is now speaking out about her ordeal -- saying she felt "imprisoned" after reporting the incident, and was told by her superiors to keep quiet or lose her job. Appearing in an interview with ABC's Brian Ross, Jamie Leigh Jones spoke about what she describes as horrifying circumstances surrounding her rape and it's aftermath as handled by officials at KBR, a then-subsidiary of private security contractor Halliburton. "I was worried about being in a war zone. I was worried about insurgency," said Jones, who didn't anticipate danger from her own coworkers. But on her fourth night in a Green Zone barracks in Baghdad, Jones says she accepted a "special drink" from male KBR employees. "Then I don't remember anything at all after that," she said. "I woke up naked, I was bruised. And then when I sat on the toilet, that's when I realized my inner thighs were very bruised and I was bleeding pretty bad. And then I knew I had been raped." After a US Army medic confirmed that she had been raped by multiple men, Jones says she was placed under armed guard in a metal shipping container -- outfitted with a bed and a sink -- and told to keep quiet about the rape or lose her job. "I felt imprisoned," she told Ross. "I wasn't able to call my parents until one of the KBR guards felt sorry for me and let me call." Ross reports that no investigation is currently underway in the case. The Crime Victims Office at the Department of Justice indicates it has closed it's probe of the rape, citing a lack of jurisdiction over the private contractors in Iraq. "It's a boys will be boys culture," said Jones' attorney, Todd Kelly. "The men who are there believe they live without laws, they live without restrictions." Jamie Leigh Jones talks to ABC about being raped while working for Halliburton in Baghdad. This video is from ABC's Good Morning America, broadcast on December 14, 2007.
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link This video is from ABC's Good Morning America, broadcast on December 14, 2007.
And she is not the only one, there are more testifying.
link Earlier this week, former Halliburton/KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones revealed that in 2005 she had been “raped by multiple men at a KBR camp” in Baghdad. This past Friday on Houston’s CBS affiliate KHOU, former KBR employee Linda Lindsey said that, while she didn’t know Jones, the allegations of sexual harassment aren’t surprising: “If you wanted to get a promotion you didn’t necessarily have to have the qualifications,” remembered Lindsey, a former KBR contractor. “You just needed to be sleeping with the person who was doing the hiring.” […] In a sworn affidavit for the Jones case, Lindsey said: “I saw rampant sexual harassment and discrimination.” […] Her affidavit also said: “When anyone would report an incident of abuse or harassment, they would be threatened with a transfer to a more dangerous location.” Watch it:
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According to Jones' suit, she began working for KBR as an administrative assistant in Houston. After complaints of being forced into a sexual relationship with her supervisor, Jones was transferred to Camp Hope in Iraq. On July 28, 2005, within a week of her arrival in the Green Zone and one day after complaining to supervisors about sexually hostile living conditions, according to the lawsuit, she was drugged, gang-raped by KBR employees and suffered severe physical and emotional injuries. It gets worse. The suit alleges that: *the U.S. State Department was notified after the alleged assault and a rape kit was administered at the combat area surgical hospital run by the U.S. Army; the examination confirmed the rape, her suit states, but documentation from the examination was turned over to KBR and "lost." *After the assault, the suit claims, Jones was detained in a trailer, without food, water or access to phones, where KBR supervisors gave her two options: stay and "get over it" or return home without guarantee of a job on return. Thanks to a military guard who loaned her a cell phone to use, she was able to contact her father in Houston, worked through Poe's office to get pressure applied to secure her release. *It's been more than two years after the alleged incident, but the U.S. Justice Department brought no criminal charges in the matter and would not confirm that any federal investigation was ever made of the allegations. It should not have taken two years to get to the bottom of this woman's allegations, and it certainly should not have required a lawsuit to force the issue. Congress needs to get involved and push hard for an investigation and prosecution of any crimes committed, if appropriate.
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on her fourth night
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New KBR employee tells of rampant sexual harassment.
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