WOMAN CLAIMS RAPE BY CONTRACTORS IN IRAQ

ABC NEWS BLOTTER - 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. Poe says his office contacted
the State Department, which quickly dispatched agents from the U.S.
Embassy in Baghdad to Jones' camp, where they rescued her from the
container.

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