U.S. Contractor Confined More Than 1000 Foreign Workers In Windowless Warehouses In Iraq

BAGHDAD - About 1,000 Asian men who were hired by a Kuwaiti subcontractor to the U.S. military have been confined for as long as three months in windowless warehouses near the Baghdad airport without money or a place to work.

Najlaa International Catering Services, a subcontractor to KBR, the Texas firm formerly known as Halliburton, hired the men, who're from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. On Tuesday, they staged a march outside their compound to protest their living conditions.

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Comments

[DannyEastVillage]

How 'bout that? KBR/Halliburton--AGAIN.

Whenever you read about something like this, you dont have to look far to find a Cheney connection.

[blood1]

Just one more reason for all those working at the behest of the USA make so many nations distrust us...if the government can't manage to oversee it's contractors and how they treat their employees, how do other countries think they will be treated.


On one hand Washington rails about "poor working conditions" for workers in China and disallows aid to other countries for the same offense....and then they hire a contractor to represent the USA and they do the same thing. And how much are we paying these Halliburton BOZOS?

Shameful!

[haval2]

a thoughtful comment is not being posted...why? it surely did not reach the level of other ones posted on this story. freedom at the huffpo?

[haval2]

where is the comment i just posted?

[vippy]

Religion is running rampant in the USA and then such articles and one has to wonder why this is
even possible. Abu Ghraib, Halliburton, KBR, Blackwater, what a stain on the USA.

[vietveter]

GO Fk yourself Mr. Cheney
You and yours are what is wrong with our country

Please leave & take your little buddy W with you

Your company already has all our money

so leave

[RichManPoorMan2009]

Disgusting,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[ramal]

Bush... the "Liberator of Iraq."

[sixx]

It was a free market choice, relax.

[SurrealPumpkin]

sure it was, on the part of najlaa and those agents.

[ScoutandBuckGoodDogs]

Gee and I thought Elisabeth Hasslec.rack said the US doesn't cause problems. We SOLVE them she said. Um FAIL! Way to be arrogant and ignorant simultaneously.

[Topsailsman]

This paragraph from the full story says it all:

"A U.S. military spokesman for the Multi-National Force-Iraq referred questions to KBR, a Texas-based former subsidiary of Halliburton. The spokesman said that the American military wasn't aware of the warehouses until McClatchy and the Times of London began asking questions about it on Monday."

Privatize. Privatize. Privatize. Everyone got rich except the workers. And there will never be an audit. The audacity.

[darthdarcy]

Privatization is Fascism...!

[BandsofBlack]

Yep. Corporate fascism.

[sonoffestus]

The US military 'referred the questions to KBR"......WTF?
I guess our military is really done.

[nibblybits]

Why is KBR still in business? Why aren't the management in jail?

[Smirk]

Having friends at the highest level of the current government helps.

[Rog49Thomas]

From the Website of NICS

Mission Statement
"Our associates throughout the world all share this common culture, comprised of six universal values: spirit, pride, Determination, Commitment, Passion and Integrity. These are much more than words. Our Culture is a tangible force, one that transcends geography and language, and permeates everything we do as a company.

[Rog49Thomas]

The abysmal treatment of Asian "guest workers" in the GCC is well known

Sadly, like the dangerous wiring in US military bases in the country, good ole US companies like KBR turn a blind eye and when there is a problem blame the subcontractor

[LewDan]

Hey, it was good enough for Uncle Sam. Since the our government behaves that way why wouldn't our contractors?

[karela]

If KBR has the Kuwaiti company under contract who has done this, then KBR is where the buck ultimately stops. If they contract for human beings, then they should be certain that those people are treated with decency.

[000Jade000]

Absolutely, and then file charges against all of Cheney's cronies who were most likely well aware that this was happening. They got billions in US taxpayer money and then used it to enslave poor people. God Bless America.

[DannyEastVillage]

not in Dick Cheney's world.