Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR

ABC News by Brian Ross, Maddy Sauer, Justin Rood | Dec. 10, 2007 (News Report)

KBR Told Victim She Could Lose Her Job If She Sought Help After Being Raped, She Says

Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she'd be out of a job.

"Don't plan on working back in Iraq. There won't be a position here, and there won't be a position in Houston," Jones says she was told. Full Story »

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by Matt Smyth - Oct. 1, 2008

Ok, this is clearly an awful story, but there is zero evidence supporting the allegations given in this story beyond Jamie Jones. The quotes are all unsourced or quotes from Jamie that she recollects. Last thing that bothers me is the "lost" rape kit. If she was rescued as she puts it by State department officials, why didn't they get some official statements or have an official statement? If she clearly was fleeing KBR at that point, why would she let the Army doctors give the rape test kit results to KBR security officials? There are a number of troubling details in the article that insist further detail is necessary. Based solely on what is in the article and what is not in the article, this sounds like an effort to build up an upcoming show of 20/20 and sling some more mud at employees of KBR/Haliburton. Where is any coroboration to the allegations?