Here’s one of today’s horrendous stories, in which malice ran rampant in the midst of apparently colluding corporate and government bureaucracies.  Each points the finger at the other, while no one does anything. It’s a too poignant illustration, thus far, of bureaucracy being “rule by no one.”  This will be an important story to watch for whatever measure of justice may eventually be effected.

ABC News: Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR
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.
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Victim: Gang Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR

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.

Peace and healing to Jamie Leigh Jones, and success to her foundation and court actions.

Deborah Alicen