HALLIBURTON SUED FOR 'HUMAN TRAFFICKING'

[kpete]

Halliburton sued for human trafficking
John Byrne
Published: Thursday August 28, 2008

Twelve men recruited in Nepal died after forced transfer to Iraq, lawfirm says
Thirteen Nepali men were recruited and held against their will for thirteen months in a human trafficking scheme engineered and perpetrated by Halliburton and its Jordanian contractor, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday in California federal court.

The Nepali men, each between the ages of 18 and 27, were allegedly hired as kitchen staff by the then-Halliburton subsidiary KBR and its Jordanian subcontractor, Daoud & Partners. Once they arrived in Jordan, however, their passports were seized and they were dispatched to Iraq.

"Tragically, as the men were being transported to Iraq, a car containing twelve of the men was stopped by members of the Ansar al-Sunna Army, an insurgent group," the Washington lawfirm Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll writes. "The 12 men in the car were taken hostage and executed by the insurgents. The executions were filmed and posted on the Internet. The Inspector General for the United States Department of Defense investigated and confirmed the facts related to the fate of the 12 men, which led to increased enforcement of anti-trafficking measures by the United States."

Only one man survived. After he was released by Iraqi rebels, he said he was assigned to work as a loader/unloader in a US military warehouse facility supervised by KBR. He asserts that he was held for 15 months against his well, before the firm finally allowed him to return home to Nepal.

more at:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Halliburton_contractor_sued_for_human_trafficking_0828.html

[MsLeopard]

1. I so hope the new administration

investigates these crimes and holds everyone involved accountable. If there's any justice, they will.

[cliffordu]

2. Someone needs to spend life in prison over this.

[barbtries]

3. murder!

the pigs, the bastards, the criminal FUCKS.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. Every executive who knew about the human trafficking needs to go down

or even better, across to the Hague.

[MadrasT]

5. Holy. Freaking. Crap.

I am speechless. Every time I hear some new horrible thing KBR has done, it's more horrible than the last horrible thing I learned about.

[cyberpj]

6. WHERE ARE THE HEADLINES?!?!?! K&R and emailed.

[glitch]

9. No kidding. The Vice President of the United States is embedded with a corporation accused of HUMAN

TRAFFICKING and not a peep from the corpse media.
There are no limits to the depths they will sink. None.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

11. DicKKK is still receiving money

from Helliburton. The VICE PRESIDENT OF THE US is PROFITING from this. :grr: :wtf: :banghead:

[Blarch]

7. Who cares ?

Certainly not the Democratic Congress. Accountability is history.

[Solly Mack]

8. and yet....

they still get government contracts...and the war criminal executive is still in power

[Dover]

10. Isn't that pretty much how they got Americans to join their wars?

Promising things were one way (lies) and then once we were there, discovering we'd been had?

[malaise]

12. Put simply

they were enslaves. Dick Cheney is involved with slavery.

[file83]

13. As long as Amerikun Korporashuns are makin' a profit!!!!

Can you say "Criminal Syndicate"? Where's our leadership?

[Quantess]

14. How LOW can they go?

Limbo, limbo....

[Jeffersons Ghost]

15. K&R keep up the good work!

[NobleCynic]

16. Whoa.

Is there any verification for this outside of raw story?

[brettdale]

17. wow

Let them all fall.

[Nothing Without Hope]

18. Related story posted at DU in October 2005 - LINK & EXCERPT:

Mon Oct-17-05 02:48 PM
posted by Cassandra

Halliburton's New Low in Treachery

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1017-25.htm

"According to the Tribune, American tax dollars and the wartime needs of the U.S. military are fueling an illicit pipeline of cheap foreign labor into Iraq. Most of those falling for the fraudulent job offers are impoverished Asians who, the newspaper said, "often are deceived, exploited and put in harm's way with little protection."

The Tribune got on the story after 12 young civilians from Nepal were kidnapped by terrorists in Iraq and a few days later publicly slaughtered. The newspaper sent a reporter and photographer to Nepal, where they interviewed families and friends and soon discovered that thousands of men are routinely recruited for "good" Mideast jobs, but wind up in the most treacherous stretches of Iraq territory working in private jobs for the U.S. military.

A brother of one of the kidnapped men told Cam Simpson, the Trib reporter, that the last time he heard from his brother was when he called from his supposed job in Jordan. He was being sent against his will to Iraq, the brother said, and then blurted out, "I am done for." The phone then went dead. The next time the young Nepalese was seen was on a TV screen two weeks later, his hands tied behind his back and a gun pointed at his head. "

We are funding indentured servitude with taxpayer money. Is it this criminal administration's intention to have everyone on the planet hate us? Sorry I asked......

[glitch]

19. I wonder what Cheney is doing today, while everybody twirls on Palin?

Just curious, knowing how they like to take advantage of diversions.