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KBR Faces New Rape Allegations in Iraq

HeadlineApr 04, 2008

Another female employee of the military contractor KBR has come forward with rape allegations in Iraq. In an interview with The Nation magazine, a woman identified by the pseudonym Lisa Smith says two colleagues raped her at a southern Iraqi military base in January. Smith says a supervisor told her to “keep quiet” or face danger. Last year, former KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones sued KBR and its former parent company Halliburton after she says she was gang-raped by employees of the company in Baghdad. Jones has said that thirty-eight other women have come forward to privately recount their own stories of sexual harassment and abuse while working in Iraq. A criminal probe into Jones’s case has lasted more than two-and-a-half years with no charges yet to be filed.

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