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KBR Faces New Sexual Harassment Claims in Iraq

HeadlineMay 09, 2008

The military contractor KBR is being linked to new sexual harassment and abuse allegations in Iraq. Three former Iraqi employees of KBR say they witnessed a culture of sexual harassment in the company’s operations at the British embassy. A female cleaner says she was offered double her pay to have sex with a KBR supervisor. She says she was fired after she refused. Two former KBR employees, Jamie Leigh Jones and Mary Beth Kineston, have also come forward with rape allegations while working for KBR in Iraq.

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