Cheney Workers RAPE US WOMAN and get away without no charges

Former Halliburton employee Jamie Leigh Jones says she was gang-raped

A US woman who said she was raped by US contractors in Iraq testified in Congress today, telling legislators that she was kept under armed guard in her trailer after reporting the incident.

Jamie Leigh Jones, now 23, said that she was gang raped inside the Baghdad Green Zone in July 2005 while she was working for the Halliburton subsidiary KBR Inc, which has support contracts with the US military.

The US Department of Justice failed to send an attorney to the House of Representatives sub-committee hearing, which Democrat John Conyers blasted as "outrageous" and "unacceptable".

Jones told committee members that on her fourth day in Baghdad some co-workers, who she described as Halliburton-KBR firefighters, invited her for a drink. "I took two sips from the drink and don't remember anything after that," she said.

The next morning Jones woke up groggy and confused, and with a sore chest and blood between her legs. She reported the incident to KBR and was examined by an army doctor, who confirmed she had been repeatedly raped vaginally and anally.

The doctor took photographs, made notes, and handed all the evidence over to KBR personnel.

"The KBR security then took me to a trailer and then locked me in a room with two armed guards outside my door," Jones testified. "I was imprisoned in the trailer for approximately a day. One of the guards finally had mercy and let me use a phone."

Jones called her father in Texas, who called his representative in Congress, Republican Ted Poe. Poe contacted the State Department, who quickly sent personnel to rescue Jones and flew her back to Texas.

The rape was so brutal she is still undergoing reconstructive surgery, Jones said.

Jones tried to get her case resolved first through KBR channels, then through the US Department of Justice. When neither course seemed to work, she gave an interview with ABC television news.

KBR has been silent on the matter, though according to ABC News the company circulated a memo among employees signed by company president and CEO Bill Utt saying that it "disputes portions of Ms. (Jamie Leigh) Jones' version and facts."

Jones said that she knows of at least 11 other women who were raped by US contractors in Iraq.

Jones' KBR contract however included a clause which prevents her from suing her employer, Poe said, which will likely force her into arbitration, which he described as "a privatised justice system with no public record, no discovery and no meaningful appeal".

There are many laws that the Department of Justice (DOJ) "can enforce with respect to contractors who commit crimes abroad, but it chooses not to", Democrat Robert Scott said.

The DOJ "seems to be taking action with respect to enforcement of criminal laws in Iraq only when it is forced to do something by embarrassing media coverage," he added.

"This is outrageous that we even have to be here today," said Conyers, adding that it shows "how far out of control the law enforcement system in Iraq is today".

There are 180,000 civilian contractor employees in Iraq, including more than 21,000 Americans, Conyers said.

While the DOJ says it is committed to law enforcement in Iraq, "they can't even give us one example of a prosecution where the victim was a civilian contractor employee in Iraq", Conyers added.

Poe was equally caustic.

The department's silence on the case "speaks volumes about the hidden crimes in Iraq," he said.

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[Mannixxx]

Nothing is suprising from a Cheney group, nothing.

[Thegthatkillsall]

.since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cus if we dont we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one.

[AtlasObjectivist]

Latest update... such an embarrassment, her case fell apart due to the fact she is a proven pathological liar with numerous false rape allegations. There wasn't a rape, drugs, beating... nothing.  It wasn't lost, it was just never there. No charges were ever filed. The whole thing turned out to be just another liberal boondoggle, making a fool of various politicians.

[Thegthatkillsall]

@mskittyz100 yea dear mama look it up

[langox510x]

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[SexyDragonMaster]

@whosayswho FUCK YOU YOu ignorant asshole!

[Thegthatkillsall]

@mskittyz100 yea he does.

[mskittyz100]

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[johneverready]

This guy is a fucking idiot. It sucks for the lady. This guy cant talk. He is a fucking idiot.

[whosayswho]

Who cares!

[whosayswho]

@Thegthatkillsall,

You're an idiot!

[soulofshiver]

This is the same Halliburton that did the cementing on the gulf oil rig hours before it blew up?