Dream dies in US army kitchen ~ Catering in Ira*

[drfemoe]

- Four Indians return home after nine-month ordeal in Iraq
JOHN MARY

Thiruvananthapuram, May 3: Tricked into working as kitchen assistants at a US army camp in Iraq, four natives of Kerala have returned home to recount their nine-month ordeal in the erstwhile Saddam country.

Faisal, who paid Rs 70,000 to a recruiting agent in Kollam in the hope of working in Kuwait as a butcher, said he was grateful to Allah for giving him another lease of life. “I never thought I would see my wife and three children,” he told The Telegraph.
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All 30 landed in Kuwait City and were received by representatives of the Gulf Catering Company. They know nothing more about the company or its managers. They were then hustled into a bus. After a long ride, they reached Iraq.
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As kitchen assistants, they had to serve food to the Americans. While they laid out sumptuous meals for the soldiers, they had to be content with leftovers. When a few of the assistants resorted to a feeble non-cooperation, one of the sentries shot a dog, in a crude warning of the fate awaiting the strikers. Once, the soldiers let them ring up their relatives, but they had to break off as a bomb went off nearby.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040504/asp/frontpage/story_3204428.asp

http://www.munajem.com/gulf.html < Gulf Catering

[billybob537]

1. Halliburton

is probably still making money on people just like these. Thats what they do.

[drfemoe]

2. The unemployment rate

in Ira* is 70%. Yet the occupation force's contractors resort to slave labor.

Ira* isn't VN . It is unparalleled in military FUBARs. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Tinoire]

3. "Any slip-ups and we were tortured"

• “We were slaves in American kitchens. We barely got two hours of sleep. Any slip-ups and we were tortured for days," says Hameed.

• “Once I told the kitchen in-charge that as I was a devout Muslim I could not cook pork. I was beaten up with rifle butts,” says Hameed’s brother Shahjahan.

• “Iraqi militia attacked our camps several times. At times, officers used us as shields,” adds Hameed.

You’ve read the stories and seen pictures of the brutal treatment of Iraqi prisoners at the hands of Western soldiers. This is the account of Indians with visas for Kuwait ending up as slaves in US military camps in Battlefield Iraq.

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The Americans in the camp told the Indians that they had purchased them for a hefty amount, and that they were to work in the kitchen and do other odd jobs.

“We were deceived as it was difficult to get workers for mundane chores in Iraq,” says Hameed, who like his brother, is a butcher.

Once they realised they had been duped and sold to the US military, they waited for a chance to escape.

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The four that got away had been promised a salary of Rs 40,000 a month. All they’ve come back with is a recurring nightmare.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_730198,000900020003.htm

[billybob537]

4. KBR

a haliburton subsidiary, is the vendor. That means Cheney's (stock options) are making money on this!:evilfrown: