First let me say, please continue the hate mail, it only proves my point and makes me stronger.

This article hits a number of issues, and I think it’s a key article to show :

1. Muslims/Arabs complaining about Troops or US people violated humane ethic codes - raping civilian/residence and getting away with it.

This article proves that it is happening to US women overseas too. So please, do not complain about US soldiers being backed by the US when doing war crimes, because they are not. Furthermore, people with low morals and low sexual control (of any sexual preference) are a problem, along with the COMPANIES or Organizations (smaller entities) that back them.

2. Homosexuals should not be targeted for improper behavior on a possibility of them acting inhumane or inappropriate/professional. For every one case of gay or lesbian misbehavior that is factual, there are 10 cases of heterosexual misconduct on a sexual level.

3. Halliburton sound familiar to anyone ???

4.The thing about sexual assault from a Homosexual, is that they know they will be booted and have no one to protect them, so the threat of exposing their preference to someone is a well thought out, and chance they take only when interested. While many heterosexuals, have the ability to work around the MCOC. This has happened to me, and many other women.

Links to these statistics can be found at:

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_support_040205,00.html

http://www.sexualharassmenttraining.biz/sexual_harassment_resources.html

http://www.now.org/press/09-06/09-01.html

Arlington, VA, Defense Manpower Data Center, Department of Defense

http://www.ncdsv.org/imageshttp://www.ncdsv.org/images/House%20Subcommittee%20Examines%20Sex%20Assault%20in%20the%20Military.pdf

Additional information can be found from sources such as FOX, CBS, MSNBC, PBs, NPR, and AP.

Now for the actual article that makes you realize that vulnerability is only the half of it.  

Statement of Jamie Leigh Jones

By Peter Gosselar - Posted on 29 April 2009

Good afternoon. I am standing before you to share with you a personal tragedy. I do this to bring awareness to legislation which is designed to ensure that no American will be deprived of their constitutionally guaranteed right to the fair administration of justice before a jury of their peers and judge, skilled in the law.

I was sent to Camp Hope in the “Green Zone” in Baghdad, Iraq, in July of 2005 to support Operation Iraqi Freedom. Before my deployment, my employer, Halliburton, showed me photographs of the trailer that I would live in with one other woman and a shared bathroom.

When I moved into my predominantly male barracks upon arrival at Camp Hope, I complained about the living conditions and asked to move into the quarters I had been promised. My requests were not only ignored – they were mocked.

On the fourth day in Iraq, I was socializing outside the barracks with several of the other contractors Halliburton had sent to the Green Zone. The men, identified only as Halliburton firefighters, provided me with an alcoholic drink and one joked that he had “saved all his roofies for Dubai.”

The antics of these men (and so many others in this lawless environment), I would later learn, were well known to the Human Resource personnel and upper management at Halliburton. Those facts were not (at least then) well known to me – or to the general public.

Assuming that the firefighter was only joking, and that we were all on the “same side,” I naively took the drink. Two to three sips later, I remember nothing.

When I awoke in my room, I was naked, I was sore, I was bruised and I was bleeding. As the grogginess wore off and I returned from the bathroom (where evidence that I had been raped was made abundantly clear to me), I found a naked firefighter still lying in the bunk bed. I was shocked. How could he have raped me like that and not even bother to leave? I now know that this is because he knew (though I did not) that there would not likely be punishment for this crime – there had not been before.

After reporting the rape to a KBR Operations Coordinator, I was taken to the Army CASH where a rape kit made it apparent that I had been assaulted both vaginally and anally by multiple perpetrators.

The Army doctor then handed my rape kit to KBR security personnel.

I was then taken to a container where I was held captive by two armed guards – called Ghurkas. I was placed inside – not allowed to leave. I had requested a phone from KBR officials, who denied me this request.

Eventually, one of the guards gave in to my begging and allowed me to use his phone. I called my father, who then contacted Congressman Ted Poe. Congressman Poe then dispatched State Department officials to ensure my release and safe return to the U.S.

Prior to my return to the U.S., Halliburton management told me that I could either “stay and get over it” or go home with no guarantee of a job – either in Houston or in Iraq. The severity of my physical injuries necessitated my decision and I went home in the face of the threats of termination –- which later proved to be true.

When I returned home, the pains in my chest continued and I sought medical help. It was confirmed that my breasts were disfigured and that my pectoral muscles had been torn. Reconstructive surgery was required.

I turned to the civil court system for justice when the criminal system had been slow to respond. I also knew that I had been harmed – not only by the rapists but by the huge corporation that ratified their actions for so long.

The lawless environment that exists in the Green Zone is not only tolerated but promoted by Halliburton’s practices there.

When my lawyers filed suit, they were met with Halliburton’s response that ALL of my claims were to be decided in arbitration – because I had signed away my right to a jury trial at the age of 20, and without the advice of counsel, or any choice other than to be terminated.

sources:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105153315

http://action.citizen.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=22031&t=

http://www.fairarbitrationnow.org/content/statement-jamie-leigh-jones

UPDATE TO THIS STORY: http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-269268