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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McClatchy Washington Bureau | Adam Ashton | December 2, 2008 07:21 PM