Iraqis allege sex abuse at the British Embassy

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3890121.ece

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The complainants – the cleaner and two male cooks who worked in the embassy canteen – say that some KBR managers groped Iraqi staff regularly, paid or otherwise rewarded them for sex and dismissed those who refused or spoke out.

The British Embassy heard the complaints initially but left KBR to investigate; a KBR report found that there was no case to answer.

The three Iraqis lost their jobs at the embassy, in the Green Zone. They spoke to The Times in the hope that the Foreign Office would conduct an independent inquiry.

The allegations, outlined in testimonies taken by embassy officials last June and obtained by this newspaper, describe a culture of sexual harassment. The cleaner said that on one occasion her manager “threw many $100 notes on the desk and said, ‘take whatever you want and stay overnight and I will pay you double ’. ”

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