What Happens in the Green Zone Stays in the Green Zone

The universal condemnation over the report today that KBI - Brown & Root contractors tortured and gang-raped a fellow employee is rather unexpected.

A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident.

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.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court against Halliburton and its then-subsidiary KBR, Jones says she was held in the shipping container for at least 24 hours without food or water by KBR, which posted armed security guards outside her door, who would not let her leave." Crooksand liars.com

This is Texas news. Now remember Halliburton completely divested of KBR in April of 2007, two days before they completed operations in Iran. Look what they said then:

HOUSTON, Texas – Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL) today announced that it has completed the final separation of KBR Inc. (NYSE: KBR). The two companies now are separate and independent of each other.

"This is a major event for Halliburton, especially its dedicated employees, loyal customers and the shareholders," said Dave Lesar, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Halliburton. "As a pure oilfield services company, Halliburton now can focus on the global growth opportunities in its core energy services business."

They are obviously not together anymore. Dare to compare the two websites and note the strong differences. First, www.halliburton.com , and then, www.kbr.com . HUGE difference, huh? I'm glad they're not together anymore since KBR had the secret security team that would occassionally kill people (hippies) for LBJ, and other despicable misdeads that would potentially damage certain highly placed individuals who might otherwise be held accountable.

Bad KBR!

Fortunately for them, they had a little/a lot of help from the state department, who, I guess, oversees the contractors. I like the way JC Christian puts it:

"A little over two years ago, a group of KBR employees drugged and gang raped Jamie Leigh Jones, a 20-year-old female American staffer. Jones responded by attempting to report the incident and management reacted by ordering their security division to lock her up in a shipping container.

A sympathetic guard eventually allowed her to use his cellphone and she called her father. He, in turn, called his congressman who contacted the State Department and asked them to dispatch embassy personnel to free her and take her to a medical facility for treatment.

Jones was examined by a doctor who determined that she had been vaginally and anally raped multiple times by the KBR contractors.

At this point, the State Department had a decision to make. Should they allow the rape kit to be sent to the FBI and the Justice Department or given to Jones for a potential lawsuit (contractors are shielded by law from being arrested for anything) and by doing so, side with the young woman against the contractor, or should they seize it and give it to KBR--the company that had imprisoned her to keep her from complaining--and thus honor the sacred covenant Our Leader made with the owners in his ownership society.

As one would expect from any agency run by a good Republican soldier like Condi Rice, State sided with the contractor and gave the rape kit to KBR security, who promptly lost it."

I think that in the traditional American captivity narrative, the brown people are supposed to be the "bad guys," and the rescuers are supposed to be the good guys? The only way this will work out in the media for KBR, the State Department, Condi Rice, et al, is for Ms. Jones to become a bad girl.

Stay tuned.