KBR lawsuit alleges ’slavery.’

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from ThinkProgress:



KBR lawsuit alleges ’slavery.’»

A Washington law firm filed a lawsuit yesterday against Iraq contractor KBR, “alleging that the company and its Jordanian subcontractor engaged in the human trafficking of Nepali workers,” the Washington Post reported today. The suit states that 13 Nepali men were recruited for kitchen work in Jordan only to have their passports seized upon arrival and “told they were being sent to a military facility in Iraq.” TPM Muckraker notes that the complaint calls these actions “slavery“:

160. Defendants’ actions as set forth above constitute the torts of trafficking in persons, involuntary servitude, forced labor, and slavery.

161. Trafficking in persons in a modern day form of slavery, and along with
involuntary servitude and forced labor constitutes a tort in violation of the law of nations and/or in violation of treaties of the United States.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/28/kbr-slavery/

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1. Yep! Slavery is alive and well in criminal corporate america.

In-sourced and outsourced slavery is the only workforce the corporate criminals want.

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2. A grim reminder to all the conventioneers in Denver that MEANWHILE, IN IRAQ...

...while all the speaker are gushing about a "responsible" withdrawal from Iraq, innocent Iraqis are being pressed into slavery, tortured, even shot execution-style and dumped in the river by troops who say they're acting on behalf of Bush.