Tell Me Again How Great Halliburton/KBR Is

[rpm]

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Rape, kidnapping, coverup... Yeah, they are a great outfit.

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.

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.

Finally, Jones says, she convinced a sympathetic guard to loan her a cell phone so she could call her father in Texas. 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 but that the rape kit disappeared after it was handed over to KBR security officers.

I hope this young woman gets justice.

[AWMac]

I'm sure Al Sharpton will get to the bottom of it.

Mac

[rpm]

WTF Mac? Did you read the story? What if it were your daughter?

[Holden McGroin]

Originally posted by rpm
Rape, kidnapping, coverup... Yeah, they are a great outfit.  I hope this young woman gets justice.

Assuming she is telling the truth...

I have no evidence to tell me if she is or is not.

[rpm]

I'd say there is quite a bit of evidence. The call to Congressman Poe, the group from the State Department that rescued her from a KBR shipping container, you also have the expert testimony from the Army doctors.

Of course that's if you could get this into an open courtroom.

[AWMac]

RPM it's a lil tuff to believe anything anymore without further investigation. There are too many people out there trying to make a fast buck at the expense of others.

Once I hear the whole story I'll decide on what I believe.

Mac

As my reference to Al Sharpton. Well I'll just leave it at that.

Word

[Holden McGroin]

I can call my congressman, that proves nothing.

Jones told ABCNews.com that an examination by Army doctors showed she had been raped ... but that the rape kit disappeared after it was handed over to KBR security officers.

"Jones said."

The rescue from a container does not prove how someone found themselves in the container.

So far this is just a story.  How credible it is will be up to a jury.  So far we have someone's word for it.

If we were to jump to a conclusion of guilt based on this much evidence against ... say... black people, that would be bad wouldn't it?

[cav58d]

THIS JUST IN!  HILLARY CLINTON IS ACCUSED OF J WALKING


AWMAC -  KILL HER!!!!!!!!!!!!

HOLDEN -  50 LASHINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Holden McGroin]

Originally posted by cav58d
HOLDEN -  50 LASHINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

50 lashes? He deserves at least 100 for what he did to me!

[Vulcan]

What's the punishment for rape in Iraq?

[Gunslinger]

RPM,

You have the left to blame for the lack of sympothy.  For 5 years now we have heard so many storys at how HB/KBR is the root to all evil and they will intern us under the power of FEMA if we talk bad about them.

Like I tell my two young kids all the time.  It's the boy who cried wolf one too many times.  

Yes if this is true it is tragic and those that perpotrated the crime need to be punished period!

BUT,

We've heard so many times at how this black ops company is SOOOOO BAD yet no evidence to back it up, when a serious crime presents itself the reaction is negligable.

Sorry dude!

[SteveBailey]

Originally posted by rpm
[B Rape, kidnapping, coverup... Yeah, they are a great outfit.I hope this young woman gets justice. [/B]

If this is true I would be disgusted w/ our govt for if they don't find a way for the perps to be criminally punished and to an appropriate degree.

[Jackal1]

If a woman was raped by  GM/Ford employees I guess you would feel the same way about those companies?

[AKIron]

If her accusation is proven to be true everyone involved needs to do some serious jail time. If it's not true she needs to do serious jail time.

[texasmom]

Originally posted by Jackal1
If a woman was raped by  GM/Ford employees I guess you would feel the same way about those companies?

The rape itself is deplorable, and that is on an individual level by the folks who took part in it.  But I think the part he was talking about in the initial post was the handling of it afterward by the company leadership (at the camp, and the higher echelons). I haven't seen anything detailed about it yet, but if any level of management in the company knew about this without taking action, it's a complete outrage.  

Is it understandable to not call the military police at the installation they were at?  Is it understandable to know that this woman was being held captive in a storage container under guard without taking action?  Who would have been in a position to tell her she wouldn't have a job if she sought help? Why would KBR investigators receive the rape kit instead of the police?

I'll watch with interest to see how details about this emerge.

*edit*  Yes, it reflects on the company... not just the individuals.