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Friday, December 21, 2007

Testimony of Jamie Lee Jones about her rape in Iraq by KBR employees before the House Judiciary Committee:

More women reporter KBR/Halliburton assaults in Iraq

SUZANNE GAMBOA Associated Press Writers

Several women have joined a Texas woman in coming forward with reports of sexual harassment and assault while working in Iraq for Halliburton's former subsidiary, KBR, a Texas congressman told a House subcommittee Wednesday. The women have given lawyers and a congressman accounts similar to the allegations of Jamie Leigh Jones of Conroe, Texas, whose allegations of rape have gained national media attention. "This problem goes way beyond just me," Jones told the House Judiciary subcommittee Wednesday. Jones she was raped in July 2005 by a co-worker who drugged her. She said she awoke groggy and confused the next morning, bleeding and bruised. She said a KBR representative kept her in a shipping container so she wouldn't report the assault, she said...LinkHere

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