Gang Rape Victim, Jamie Leigh Jones, Claims KBR Cover Up
Claims of Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton and KBR
From ABC’s “The Blotter”:
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.
Read the entire story: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR.
First of all, my thoughts go out to the victim, her family and everyone involved in trying to settle the many issues that need to be put to rest in a case like this. I’m going to watch this story and post updates as it develops. There are already a handful of bloggers questioning the story as reported by ABC. And of course, the Left is already bolstering the Bush – Cheney Inc. conspiracy.
But I’m not going to question the reported facts just yet. Having said that, there’s something about this story that doesn’t quite add up; we’ll see…