KBR accused of human trafficking

the military-industrial complex at work for you...

Thu Aug 28, 3:51 PM ET

LOS ANGELES - The families of 12 Nepali men killed by Iraqi insurgents have filed a federal lawsuit accusing defense contractor KBR Inc. and a Jordanian subcontractor of human trafficking, saying the men were sent to work in Iraq against their will after being promised jobs in a posh hotel in Jordan.


The lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court alleges the workers were being taken to work at a U.S. air base in Iraq in 2004 when insurgents intercepted their caravan and killed them days later. A Nepali worker whose car survived the attack is also a plaintiff; Buddi Prasad Gurung, now back in Nepal, claims he was forced to work at Al Asad Air Base as a warehouse loader for 15 months.

The 13 Nepali men were recruited by Daoud & Partners and other subcontractors with promises of work at an Amman hotel before their passports were taken and they were sent to Iraq, according to the lawsuit.

Heather Browne, a spokeswoman for Houston-based KBR, declined to comment, saying the company has not yet seen the lawsuit. A contact number for Daoud & Partners could not immediately be located.

Agnieszka Fryszman, attorney for the plaintiffs, said the men came from poor families that went into debt to send them abroad to work and were pushed deeper into poverty when they were killed.

The lawsuit seeks unspecified compensation for their losses.

"It seemed there were a number of different recruiters and different contractors but they all seem to end at KBR's doorstep," Fryszman said.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/a...ng_lawsuit

we're talking about human trafficking here, people!

IrresistibleB1tch said:

we're talking about human trafficking here, people!

thanks for the bump, X - the article didn't seem to garner much interest.

IrresistibleB1tch said:

thanks for the bump, X - the article didn't seem to garner much interest.

XxAxX said:

IrresistibleB1tch said:

thanks for the bump, X - the article didn't seem to garner much interest.

well, it should garner interest. i'll be interested to see what KBR's response will be, their answer to the complaint. i wonder who controls the Al Asad Air Base??

XxAxX said:

IrresistibleB1tch said:

XxAxX said:

http://www.americablog.co...water.html

wow. what else has to happen until somebody takes responsibility and sends KBR and Halliburton packing?

IrresistibleB1tch said:

XxAxX said:

http://www.americablog.co...water.html

wow. what else has to happen until somebody takes responsibility and sends KBR and Halliburton packing?

Measure in Love
"May the voice of the child in you never stop speaking. May it fall like a gift from heaven, offering to dessicated words its splendorous burst of laugher, the salt of its tears, its all powerful wildness." Maurice Blanchot

Is there any defense of Cheney? Does any rightwinger find his behaviour in all of this decent and honorable? I've never understood how this blatant cronyism is allowed and encouraged. It would never be allowed in the "liberal media"--no reporter, say, for the New York Times would be allowed to have such a conflict of interest. In fact, more and more American companies are making employees adhere to an ethics code and appearances of impropriety are not allowed.

Yet Cheney revels in his sleaze. It's not only unbelievable; it's incredibly insulting.

Efan said:

Is this being covered at all by the TV news media?

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