I'm surprised this isn't getting more coverage. Unsatisfied with raping America in the metaphorical sense, Halliburton is taking it literally, one person at a time:
[QUOTE]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.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3977702[/url]
Oh, and by the way, the story goes on to explain how she did the whole rape kit thing and gave it to her employer, Halliburton/KBR, who -- SURPRISE -- "misplaced" it. Oh, and the DOJ has assumed control over the investigation, and two years later, has done diddly poo. In fact, ABC News was unable to confirm that any federal agency was conducting any sort of investigation.
:shock:
Wow is that fucked up. An American woman is gang-raped by Americans -- working for Halliburton, no less -- and then is imprisoned by armed guards in a fucking crate, and nothing happens. If you were going to write a piece of fiction about a similar incident, you'd leave that part out because it would seem too over the top and ridiculous. Hope she wins her suit -- big.