IRAQ: Blood, Sweat and Tears at New U.S. Embassy

Some of that free enterprise at work I guess...

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http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=38102

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Justice Department is actively investigating
allegations of forced labour and other abuses by the Kuwaiti contractor now
rushing to complete the sprawling 592-million-dollar U.S. embassy project in
Baghdad, numerous sources have revealed.

Justice Department trial attorneys Andrew Kline and Michael J. Frank with
the civil rights division have been contacting former employees of First
Kuwaiti General Trading and Contracting and other witnesses for interviews
and documents, but declined to comment on the investigation other than to
say they are looking into allegations of labour trafficking.

The two investigators are said to be looking for actual workers around the
world who claim they were misled or pressured to work in Iraq against their
will by the company.

Rumors of forced labour in Iraq have plagued First Kuwaiti General Trading
and Contracting for several years, but U.S. government officials have
discounted such allegations by workers from Nepal and the Philippines in the
past, even as the company continued to rack up contracts now totaling
several billion dollars from the Pentagon and U.S. State Department.

Late last year, several U.S. citizens also said they boarded separate
chartered jets in Kuwait loaded with work crews from the Philippines, India,
Pakistan and Africa holding boarding passes to Dubai, but the planes then
flew directly to Baghdad.

More recently, another U.S. citizen told IPS that he was told by workers
from Ghana on the embassy site that they thought they would have jobs in
Dubai but were then taken to work in Iraq.


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