Halliburton Woman Claims She was Raped and Held in a Shipping Container
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Thursday December 13, 2007 19:12
by Joe
Jamie Leigh Jones claims she was raped by co-workers while working for a Halliburton subsidiary at Camp Hope, Baghdad, in 2005. After being drugged and gang-raped, she claims she was imprisoned in a shipping container without food or water and threathened with dismissal if she reported the incident.
Jones began working for KBR as an administrative assistant in 2004 when she was 19, but later transferred to Iraq with another Halliburton subsidiary. Jones lived in a coed barracks and, after enduring harassment from some of the men in the quarters, was drugged and raped July 28, 2005. Her attackers were Halliburton and KBR firefighters. The facility was under direct control of the U.S. government, KBR and Halliburton, collectively. Hillary Clinton has called for investigation into gang-rape allegations.
Ted Poe, Republican Representative for Texas said Jones' father contacted him after the alleged rape and said his daughter reported KBR/Halliburton was holding her in a shipping container without food and water and under armed guard.
She is coming under sustained attack by people who claim she is 'undermining the war effort'
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3977702&page=1
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Jump To Comment: 1Jamie Leigh Jones signed an employment contract and there is a mandatory arbitration clause in that contract. It says, "if there's any dispute arising out of your employment or related to your employment, that dispute doesn't go before a jury, doesn't go before trial judge, goes before an arbitrator." This may mean the 7 Halliburton rapists will go free.
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