Jamie Leigh Jones
ABC News
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.
It felt like prison,” says Jones, who told her story to ABC News as part of an upcoming “20/20” investigation. “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. Jones told ABCNews.com that an examination by Army doctors showed she had been raped “both vaginally and anally,” but that the rape kit disappeared after it was handed over to KBR security officers.
There is no such thing as rape by a contractor in Iraq… since no laws apply to them, there is no law that can be broken.
Are we really really proud of our leadership yet?
She probably was.
There are “bad apples” and rapists out there–what a shock. I don’t think it matters what company they work for–freaks can show up anywhere. Those a-holes better get under protective custody before some soldier puts a bullet in their heads before they get out of Iraq.
This will probably get them more contracts to ship empty containers and $300 24 packs of pepsi. Life is so much simpler in COD4.
Not surprising considering who ran (still runs?) Halliburton.
Oh I’m sure that while Dicky boy profits hansomly from Halliburton stock options and dividends. He’s well insulated from any blame of their operations. He just makes sure that H. gets the business. Not what they do after getting it.
“but that the rape kit disappeared after it was handed over to KBR security officers.”
Well it’s nice to know that it’s not only the CIA that destroy embarrassing evidence, under this administration’s watch. Bush’s own Presidencial Library will probably come with a self-destruct feature, should anything else embarrassing turn up after he has left office. Hell, there will probably be an all out shredding party on January 2009, in every office and department. Jibjab should do one of their animations showing him surfing out on a wave of shredded waste. Perhaps to the tune of “Turkey in the Straw”.
Not a very good commentary of Americans overseas.
“Jones told ABCNews.com that an examination by Army doctors showed she had been raped “both vaginally and anally,” but that the rape kit disappeared after it was handed over to KBR security officers.”
Why would the Army doctors turn the rape kit over to KBR security officers?
Both vaginally and anally?
So considering Cheney,
Halliburton must be the anally bunch.
That’ll teach women not to aim high in their lives specially when the US is under a Republican rule, everyone knows that the sole role of a woman is to spread their legs for their man so they could spit more holy warriors in the war against Satan.
Ummm,
KBR security??
WHO is running this war??
#11 – you had it partially right 😉
In my mind, the lesson is for the boys and girls considering putting their lives in the hands of others: are you confident that you trust the people you’ll be with; trust them enough to have your life depend on them?
If there is a problem, who will protect you? Will you have to protect yourself?
Self reliance is unfortunately the rule outside the military.
Contractors have remarked to me that, in the military, there is a camaraderie. They say it is every man for himself after they separate and go to a private firm.
This was in Iraq, she may have been showing her ankles.
Getting raped by Halliburton is SOP.
The whole country was raped by Dickies Hal!
What was she looking for in a muslim country during war time? Emplyment?
If someone takes the job in a war zone, you’d think they’d consider possibility of being killed or raped (when its a woman)…
How much she wants now for this experience?
What a horrible thing.
You know, it seems that there are always people who are going to blame the woman for a rape, and that is really sad.
#11
Your right. Women should wait until the Dems get the White House back then they can get molested right in the Oval office. Don’t have to travel so far!
Wally the Engineer, if youre a woman and you decide to live in a war-torn country, what the fuck do you expect to gain there? That the men will rape other men there, when it comes to this?
What an idiot!
#19 hahaha
>>You know, it seems that there are always people who are going to blame the woman for a rape, and that is really sad.<<
Facts:
– People die at wars
– Women get raped at wars
– Men always rape women, not camels or other men
– Women in a war zone are statistically much more prone to being raped than women in a peaceful areas
– Women DON’T belong to military, paramilitary etc (dont even try to discuss it – its a fact known for millenias)
Now Im a man and I know that a lone woman in a country at war is at least not safe.
Are you trying to tell me this woman was so clueless she had no idea what might happen to her there?
Excuse me if I’ll be hypocrite again, but thats almost a perfect description of stereotypical blondie from the jokes 😀
Yup, horrible thing happened to her. But it was her own decision to take that risk when she signed up to go there.
#20
At least under a Democratic rule you can achieve an orgasm and you will not be considered a person worse than Hitler.
>>What was she looking for in a muslim
>>country during war time? Emplyment?
>>If someone takes the job in a war zone, you’d
>>think they’d consider possibility of being
>>killed or raped (when its a woman)…
Maybe if she had been raped by Muslims or during combat, she would have approached the situation differently.
She wasn’t, though. She was raped by Halliburton employees in the purportedly “safe” Green Zone.
She should crucify the bastards.
#18
WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION!?! This woman gets gang raped, it gets covered up and all you can do is blame her and and snidely ask how much she wants!? You sir are as bad then the scum who committed this crime because you seem to think that it is OK to rape someone. I got news for you asshole, it is never, under any circumstances, OK to rape someone. Period, the end. You are a loathsome creature not worthy of existence if you would excuse this in any way. Oh and by the way, she was supposed to be protected by her employers and other security forces not raped, threatened and denied justice by them.
#20
Seriously? You are going to equate a consensual blow job to gang rape? Really?
#25
“Seriously? You are going to equate a consensual blow job to gang rape? Really?”
The Christian Fundamentalists will agree on that.
#25 I hate to repeat myself… but I’ll make exception for you since youre so pissed 🙂
Facts:
– People die at wars
– Women get raped at wars
– Men always rape women, not camels or other men
– Women in a war zone are statistically much more prone to being raped than women in a peaceful areas
– Women DON’T belong to military, paramilitary etc (dont even try to discuss it – its a fact known for millenias)
any more questions?
>>Seriously? You are going to equate a
>>consensual blow job to gang rape? Really?
I wouldn’t put anything past the Republicans.
Destroying a country, killing thousands of Americans, almost 100,000 Iraqis, shredding the Constitution, gang rape, torture, murder…none of it is any worse than Bill Clinton’s knob polishing.
#28
“none of it is any worse than Bill Clinton’s knob polishing.”
To a Christian, knob polishing is worse than baking non white folk inside a German oven.
OK asshole here we go:
Facts:
-people are not killed deliberately by their own side in war.
-it is never acceptable for a person to be raped, male or female even in a time of war.
-Men do rape other men (surprise dim wit!)
– Women and men both should be protected by the people who sent them there, not raped by them!
If you were talking about an enemy action I could at least understand WTF you’re talking about (though I would still disagree). However, you are saying it is expected that YOUR OWN SIDE WILL DO THIS TO YOU!
>>- People die at wars
>>- Women get raped at wars
Yeah, but they don’t usually die or get raped at the hands of their own countrymen.
>>Men always rape women, not
>>camels or other men
Not sure about the camels, but they sure as shit rape other men.
>>- Women in a war zone are
>>statistically much more prone to
>>being raped than women in a peaceful
>>areas
Yeah, but it’s usually THE ENEMY who does that.
>>- Women DON’T belong to military,
>>paramilitary etc (dont even try to
>>discuss it – its a fact known for
>>millenias)
Did your mother not love you enough, or something? Where did you get that kind of misogynistic tripe?