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.
Glad to know you place NBC News at the level of National Enquirer. I guess that makes this story at that same level, or is ABC superior to NBC in your book?
PVC,
It is hard to believe that any person could make such empty, offensive, and generally worthless arguments unless it was merely your aim to break up discussion over this incident.
Paid disruption is a easy job if you can get it, I guess. Hope you get health benefits, ’cause you must get your ass kicked all the time with that sort of attitude. Unless, of course, your arguments are as fake and plastic as your namesake. Who knows.
Back on topic: since cover up and CYA seems to be the modus operandi of KBR/Halliburton/First Kuwaiti/Octupus Inc, we should figure out how far up the chain it goes, arrest them all for accomplice to rape and obstruction of justice, seize their assets, and break them into so many little pieces that they will be no danger to anyone anymore.
Perhaps I am too optimistic that might happen, but it’s much better than the idea of these psychopaths and thugs coming back to the US and enforcing that kind of justice on us. The contracts are already drafted. . . .
Yes I’m a monster, for I don’t have to go to Iraq or any other war place to know that people die and get raped there?
And yes, I am heartless too, because I don’t feel sorry enough for some female *and possibly underage* mercenary?
You people need to watch less CNN and get your heads out of the clouds 🙂 Who goes to war should know s/he may die or get raped there, IT IS OBVIOUS, isn’t it?
I am not the mercenary who raped her, I am not the one who attacked Iraq or sent your boys and girls there to be maimed, shot at, killed and raped. I feel sorry for our troops there doing their ingrateful and unwanted job.
Yet I don’t have to feel sorry for some adventure or thrills seeking mercenary girl who got raped in a foreign lands.
Shorter PVC: If it’s a war, there is no law. If there is no law, we can get away with anything. Let’s murder, rape and pillage!
To be honest, it really does sum up the admin’s position on these sort of issues quite well.
You generally shouldn’t expect to get raped by your own side.
#65 yes & #66 yes, but you forgot we are talking “mercenaries” here (how many times do i have to emphasise it?). Look up the definition somewhere.
Does it really matter they are on “our side” today? Some rich anti-american oil-monkey may pay them more than veep does as of tomorrow, and you’d still think they are on “our side”?
>>yes, but you forgot we are talking
>>“mercenaries” here
Not only are we talking about “mercenaries” here, we’re talking about mercenaries employed by the company that President Dick Cheney was CEO of for a long time, and that he still maintains strong behind-the-scenes ties with (partially due to his affection for the $34,000,000.00 severance package he received).
Pretty fucking pathetic, when this is “our” government.
#68 of course its pathetic, but look at his first name… 😉 But aside, truth to be told, you don’t really think HE hired these rapists personally, do you?
Rapes happen among our troops too, such cases are too silenced out and covered up, and so on. Nothing new here, simply any army is not a place for women. Every empire, country and military in the past and present all over the world knows that, so what are we – rediscovering America all over again? 🙂
>>you don’t really think HE hired these
>>rapists personally, do you?
Of course not. But HE could have made sure tha they weren’t hired, or HE could have made sure that his ex- (and current) company didn’t get all those hundreds of millions of dollars instead of fighting a war with American troops.
>>simply any army is not a place for women.
As I say, you need psychological counseling, son. Your continuing belittlement of women suggests some sort of “mother love” deficit on your part.
Have you been to a therapist? Or do you stay in denial that there’s any problem?
# 69 PoliticallyVeryCorrect
“Nothing new here, simply any army is not a place for women. Every empire, country and military in the past and present all over the world knows that,”
Wow so you are a sexist too. Holy fuck who could have guessed. BTW Several countries through out the world have women in their armies. You ignorant Dolt!
only your Israel 🙂
#70
tsk tsk, so unchristian of you lol
shouldn’t you pray for me, son?
>>only your Israel 🙂
Actually, I’m hard-pressed to come up with a single civilized country in the entire world that does not allow women in the military. Many of them have mandatory conscription.
Where the fuck have you been for the last hundred years? For a Politically Very Correct guy, you sure sound like a relic of the 18th century.
How embarrassing for you!
#74 he is right pray for him 🙂
# 74 Mister Mustard
Lets not forget he was the one backing you up in the other debate.
>>tsk tsk, so unchristian of you lol
>>shouldn’t you pray for me, son?
You know, that “LOL” thing is so 80’s. What image are you trying to portray by using teeny-bopper talk from 20 years ago anyway??
As to me being “unchristian”, why? Because I recommend you get much-needed psychological counseling for your hatred of women? Or do you consider me to be “mean” because I point out the issues you are struggling with?
And I do pray for you, son.
# 77 Mister Mustard
“Or do you consider me to be “mean” because I point out the issues you are struggling with?”
Oh the hypocrisy. Oh the Irony!!!!! LOL LOL LOL
#78 – Are you stalking me, “J”?
You’re just pissed because I pointed out that you are a pushy motherfucker.
Big-Boy Pants. Put ’em on. Deal with it.
“Are you stalking me, “J”?”
Nope just post on a blog I have been visiting and posting on for almost 2 years now.
“You’re just pissed because I pointed out that you are a pushy motherfucker.”
No because that would be ok. Lets not pretend about what you did.
“Big-Boy Pants. ”
Do you have some issues about “Big-Boy Pants.” is that because you are a micropenis?
“J”, you’re really creeping me out.
Between your stalking, your continuing references to my penis, your deeply twisted views of sexuality, and your effeminate professional victim-ism, you seem like somebody regular people would be well advised to stay well away from.
Now get back to your masturbation.
# 81 Mister Mustard
“Between your stalking”
Make the accusation again and you will hear from my lawyers. If you don’t think I can get your contact info from your ISP you are mistaken.
>>Make the accusation again and you will hear from
>>my lawyers.
Pushy, pushy, pushy.
And as to you getting my contact info from my ISP, tee hee hee! I’m choking in glee! You’re killing me, “J”!
You really are a hoot.
Tell me what my ISP is, and I’ll check with my ISP as to whether or not they’ll give you my contact info.
Hee hee!
# 83 Mister Mustard
I am not going to play games with you.
Falsly accusing someone of a crime is slander.
Slandering someone on-line is a crime.
If you have comited a crime and I file a report I send it to DU and recieve your IP address. I then trace your IP to you ISP then I file notice with them. They intern not wanting to be sued will give over your contact info. If you are at work I will get that info. Either way you wont be able to hide
I don’t car if you call me a douchbag or pushy Jew or what ever other racist bullshit comes out of your creative mind but if you falsly accuse me of a crime again you will have a serious legal issue on you hands.
“J” – hee hee hee! Sorry to pop your balloon. Now, why don’t you shut the fuck up?
Your Professional Victim-ism is really wearing thin.
What’s a 19 or 20 year old, female civilian doing in Iraq? Does Halliburton hire anyone under 21 for overseas work? The main office is going to send a young woman where they will get lots of publicity if she gets hurt?
I think I’ll wait for the rest of the story on this one.
>>What’s a 19 or 20 year old, female
>>civilian doing in Iraq?
Hey, it’s Halliburton/ Cheney. Anything for a buck.
Mister Mustard, we may disagree with each other (a lot) on matters involving religion…
… but Jesus I support you in this thread. (ignoring “J” who’s being a dick).
Anyone saying she should have expected it, or in any way is to blame is fucking scum. Period. Worthless trash, and devoid of any empathy whatsoever.
# 88 gregory
Greg you my not understand the history. Or maybe you do and you are just a racist too.
Mr. Mustard thinks it’s ok to run around calling East Asians “Orientals”. He also likes to make derogatory statements like “a lot of Jews are pushy”. Then in this post he accuses me of “stalking” him because I choose to comment on his staements. Well to falsly accuse someone of a crime is slander. Slander is a crime.
What my friend Aron doesn’t understand is that I draw the line there.
Now as to this issue
“Anyone saying she should have expected it, or in any way is to blame is fucking scum. Period. Worthless trash, and devoid of any empathy whatsoever.”
Couln’t agree more. They should be brought to trial ASAP.
Oh “J”. “J”, “J”, “J”.
Let me know when John C. Dvorak provides you with my ISP address, won’t you?
As to your continuing Professional Victimization….snooooooooore…
You know what. I don’t want to bother John with such things so sinch I have friends at microsoft and you email is
I shouldn’t have too much trouble getting what I need when I need it.
Keep it up asshole!