DOJ Questioned About '05 Iraq Rape Case

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Source: Associated Press

DOJ Questioned About '05 Iraq Rape Case
By JOHN PORRETTO – 6 hours ago

HOUSTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee asked the Justice Department on Tuesday to give a full account of its investigation into the alleged rape of a female contract worker in Iraq two years ago.

Jamie Leigh Jones, a former Conroe resident, filed a federal lawsuit in May against Halliburton Co., its former subsidiary, KBR Inc., and others claiming she was raped by co-workers while working for a Halliburton subsidiary at Camp Hope, Baghdad, in 2005. The Associated Press usually does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted, but Jones' face and name have been broadcast by ABC News and appear on her own Web site.

In a letter dated Tuesday, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., asked Attorney General Michael Mukasey if his office had investigated Jones' claims and whether the Justice Department has jurisdiction to prosecute under military provisions of the USA Patriot Act.

Conyers also seeks clarification on a statement from KBR, the military contractor that split from Halliburton in April, that says it had initiated investigations into the alleged assault but later halted the probe.

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1. Vicious, lawless mercenaries!

I read the story in the press on the internet yesterday and went immediately to the victims website to donate to further her efforts to press her civil case and assist others who have been brutalized by those we are employing in Iraq. Ms. Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers and then held in a container for over a day to keep her from reporting the

Although this incident happened over two years ago, Halliburton, KBR and our spineless government have done nothing to bring justice and compensation to this victim, and who knows how many other patriotic US citizens, who are/were similarly used and discarded in Iraq and elsewhere.

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2. Indeed ...

If they're doing this to one of our own one can only imagine what these sick bastards are doing to Iraqi women ... we live in very dar times.

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3. KB and R are neanderthal mafia. just mafia under Bush's command

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4. If Blackwater is on our streets they will kill us with ease

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5. Gangster Cheney created a "Real Monster" didn't he?