Halliburton Gang Rape
Why am I not surprised when I read that a 20 year old working for Halliburton was drugged and gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR co-workers in Baghdad, then held in a shipping container injured and bleeding, without food or water for at least 24 hours and warned to keep her mouth shut or lose her job.
After hearing similar threats, Jamie Leigh Jones had to persuade a sympathetic guard to loan her a cell phone to call her father who then called their congressman, who contacted the state department who sent US Agents from the Embassy in Bagdad to rescue her from her own American employer!
For the last two years, she's been asking the US government to hold the perpetrators accountable, but the men who raped her may never be brought to justice because Halliburton and other contractors in Iraq aren't subject to US or Iraqi laws.
MoveOn.org is calling on Congress to investigate Jamie's case, hold those involved accountable, and bring US contractors under the jurisdiction of US law so this can't happen again. Sign the petition NOW!
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