New KBR Rape Allegations

April 04, 2008 1:42 PM

Justin Rood Reports:

Another female KBR employee has come forward alleging she was brutally raped in Iraq, and that the company attempted to cover it up, the Nation magazine reported yesterday.

Like Jamie Leigh Jones, whose story ABC News reported last December, the woman said she was gang-raped after being slipped a tranquilizer.  Her KBR supervisor told her to keep quiet about the incident, she told the magazine.  When she tried to contact a lawyer in the United States, she said, the company confiscated her computer.

The woman, who said the rape occurred this January, asked  not to be named, the Nation reported.

In a letter to the woman’s lawyer, a KBR attorney said that the firm takes the allegations "very seriously," but that they had "inaccuracies."

"[T]he Company intends to pursue all available remedies should false statements be publicized," KBR lawyer Celia Ballí wrote, according to the Nation.

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When are we going to see one of these case come to a courthouse.

Posted by: dras | Apr 7, 2008 12:48:44 PM

It is what happens when a government outsources war to uncontrolled thugs. Blackwater should be prosecuted for the cover-up, and the sleazy way they try to intimidate the victim from going public. The people behind this company should be jailed. republican crooks...so whats new?

Posted by: Mark D | May 1, 2008 2:22:07 PM

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