Updated: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by US, Halliburton / KBR

Updated: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton / KBR

by gooderservice

Mon Dec 10, 2007 at 12:23:15 PM PST

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.

I'm just going to add a few blockquotes with a link to the story. She was drugged, raped multiple times, and held captive. Will the perpetrators pay? Nope. More snippets below the fold.

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"It felt like prison," says Jones, (snip) "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.

She was 20 years old working as a civilian in Iraq. Oh, and when she did finally get to see the Army doctors (after the congressman called the State Department, who rescued her) the Army doctors confirmed she had been raped... in more than one fashion. Evidence. But not so much, since the rape kit was turned over to KBR security officers, where it subsequently disappeared. But then again, isn't that standard protocol when a crime takes place, the doctor at the hospital executes the rape kit to collect evidence, and then turns it over to an employee of the victim's company.

A United States citizen works for the American people, gets brutally assaulted, is held captive, and Gonzo looks the other way

UPDATE:
As suggested, and the link provided, by Dissento, YOU can tell KBR how you feel.

h/t to borkitekt for suggesting I update this diary to include that link.

UPDATE 2:

h/t to gatu

From Jamie Leigh Jones' Journal

In regards to the missing pictures and doctor's notes that were taken in Baghdad Lynn Falanga and I both called the doctor that performed the rape kit. The doctor stated to both of us that "I have no idea which rape victim you are because so many young contractor girls were raped after drinking with the guys" she also stated that "I performed so many rape kits in the six months that I was stationed there that there would be no way to recall whom yours was."

So what is the date that this doctor will testify under oath at a Congressional hearing?

Jamie's Foundation