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raycarey

for all the halliburton apologists on this thread...

how would you feel if your wife, sister or mother was treated in this way? would you still be commenting on the oak paneling that may or may not have been in the shipping container where she was held captive?

would you still be expecting her to hold press conferences to satiate the morbid curiosity of those that doubt her claims?

chirp, chirp indeed.

Boon Mee

She's keeping mum 'cause her case has more holes than a chunk of swiss cheese...

raycarey

which of her claims do you doubt?

Texpat

Attys: Iraq Rape Case Belongs in Court

By JUAN A. LOZANO
Mar 5, 2008

HOUSTON (AP) — A woman who says co-workers raped her while she was a contractor in Iraq should have her case tried in court, not settled in private arbitration, her lawyer told a federal judge Wednesday.

In a federal lawsuit, Jamie Leigh Jones says she was drugged, raped and held against her will in a storage locker while working for KBR Inc., then a subsidiary of Halliburton Co., in 2005.

As part of her employment, Jones agreed to settle claims against the company in arbitration. But she never imagined such claims would include being imprisoned in a storage locker, said one of her attorneys, L. Todd Kelly.

Attorneys for Halliburton and KBR argued that the contract Jones signed binds her to settle all claims — including claims of sexual assault — against her former employer through arbitration.

Halliburton attorney W. Carl Jordan said that because the purported attack is said to have happened in Halliburton-provided barracks, it ties any claims Jones makes to her employment.

Attorneys for Halliburton, KBR and other subsidiaries that have been sued have disputed Jones' allegations. KBR split from Halliburton last year.

U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison is expected to rule at a later date.

Jones sued in May, saying she was raped by co-workers 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 in media reports and on her own Web site.

According to the lawsuit, Jones endured harassment by some of the men living in her barracks and was drugged and raped on July 28, 2005. Her attackers were firefighters for Halliburton and KBR, the suit alleges.

Jones said she was kept in a shipping container for a day so she wouldn't report the assault.

Jordan rebutted Jones' claim that she was held against her will, saying she received medical care and was able to call her family.

"Ms. Jones has changed her account several times," Jordan said.

Kelly argued that the attack was not related to Jones' employment and that she was not "a 24-hour employee."

"If she had been on call or required to work out of her living space, then she could be seen to be in her work area," he said.

In January, a judge in a similar lawsuit, filed in federal court in Houston by another female contract worker, ruled the case should be settled through arbitration.
In December, Jones detailed her allegations to a congressional subcommittee.

Several members of Congress have criticized the Justice, State and Defense departments for the way the case was handled. Congress has pressured the Bush administration to force U.S. contractors in Iraq to offer better their employees better protection from crimes.

Paul Bresson, a spokesman for the Justice Department, said Wednesday that his agency is investigating Jones' case but declined to comment further.

The Associated Press: Attys: Iraq Rape Case Belongs in Court

raycarey

^
any comments on the above article, or do you fancy yourself a media clearinghouse for TD members?

blackgang

I don't know, but it seems to me that she was on her own time, not on company time, she chose to party with the guys, and guys do get horny and booze seems to make things a bit difficult to figure out, and she might have brought some of this on herself for trying to be "Just one of the gang", so it is just a little hard to say what is Black and what is White and what is Grey, I wasn't there and have no idea what happened, but have been on enough CO-ED jobs to know that sometimes people are out of their areas with personal acts and sometimes things do happen.

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Texpat

I don't fancy myself anything. Contrary to your opinion, snide and judgemental comments need not follow every post. Just waiting for the trial. Nothing new -- keeping it on the front burner. I notice you didn't post any comments about the article either.

Fancy yourself the Issues schoolmarm?

Texpat

Jamie Leigh Jones -- where are you?

We haven't forgotten about you.

blackgang

Yes Darling, where are you.
Come and tell us a story about partying with them nasty roughnecks and how you wake up with a hangover and a sore ass.

Boon Mee

Don't call 'em Toolpushers for 'nothin!

Rigger

No now we are called Rig managers

Boon Mee

Actually, the Rig Manager is the OIM, right...?
Then you got those new categories with a lot of companies: Asset Manager & Performance Manager.
Gettin' complicated...

Rigger

Offshore but on land rigs now you just have a Rig managers and Night toolpushers

Texpat

Don't be shy Ms Jones. Did you settle? Did you drop it?

Come out, come out wherever you are.

Butterfly

^ drunk ?

AntRobertson

^Somebody really needs to install a breathalyzer on Tex's PC. The horrible wrecks he gets himself into are as tragic as they are preventable.

Like all accidents they make for compelling viewing though, that thing inside you that makes you slow down and look even though you know you're going to see something awful.

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Texpat

Sputter and Aunty, you're sadly mistaken.

I haven't had a drink for days. Do you think I would have remembered about Ms Jones if I had been drunk?

Your reasoning skills are shot. You couldn't discredit me if you tried. But please, keep trying.

AntRobertson

Paranoia, another sure sign of the drink.

Texpat

You're right, Aunty, Issues has gone way downhill.
Perhaps you should take another sabbatical.

AntRobertson