DynCorp Manager Used Armored Car To Transport Hookers in Iraq

[seemslikeadream]

http://www.muckraked.com/wordpress/2008/04/28/dyncorp-manager-used-armored-car-to-transport-hookers-in-iraq/


Some explosive testimony this afternoon from a panel of whistleblowers testifying before the Senate’s Democratic Policy Committee on contractor abuse in Iraq.

A contractor died when a DynCorp manager used an employee’s armored car to transport prostitutes, according to Barry Halley, a Worldwide Network Services employee working under a DynCorp subcontract.

“DynCorp’s site manager was involved in bringing prostitutes into hotels operated by DynCorp. A co-worker unrelated to the ring was killed when he was travelling in an unsecure car and shot performing a high-risk mission. I believe that my co-worker could have survived if he had been riding in an armored car. At the time, the armored car that he would otherwise have been riding in was being used by the contractor’s manager to transport prostitutes from Kuwait to Baghdad.“

Other revelations:

- Kellogg Brown & Root contractors used to destroy countless quantities of still-usable equipment that was difficult to transport in “massive burn pits” that were “burning 24 hours a day.”

- KBR’s ice foreman “was cheating the troops out of ice at the same time that he was trading the ice for DVDs, CDs, food and other items at the Iraqi shops across the street.”

- When KBR whistleblower Frank Cassaday reported weapons looting, he was placed in a jail tent by KBR security.

[LakeSamish706]

1. One has to give him "A" for originality. n/t

[wildbilln864]

2. k&r! thanks SLaD. nt

:hi:

[ck4829]

3. K&R

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

4. Dyncorp had been implicated in human trafficking and sex slavery in Bosnia in 2002.

So this doesn't surprise me at all.

[slipslidingaway]

5. McKinney Grills Rumsfeld on Dyncorp and more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eootfzAhAoU


Transcript...

of Representative Cynthia McKinney's Exchange with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers, and Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) Tina Jonas, March 11th, 2005

Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld in House Hearing on FY06 Dept. of Defense Budget
Chairman Representative Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and witnesses Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and JCS Chairman General Richard Myers hold a House Hearing on the FY 2006 Budget for the Department of Defense and Military Services.
3/11/2005

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/031505_mckinney_transcript.shtml

[Mabus]

6. And why is this important?

Don't you know there's a church on fire in Philadelphia? :sarcasm:

[Indenturedebtor]

7. This is what happens when people trust corporations

The repukelicants propaganda campaign of the last few decades is paying dividends in spades : "Government and regulation are bad, but you can trust corporations to do the right thing... you don't need to police them even."

Disgusting.