Syriana All Over Again - BFEE's Kuwaiti/Halliburton 'dot-to-dot'...

[bridgit]

‘They Forcibly Brought Me to Iraq’

'Most of First Kuwaiti Trading & Contracting’s early business in Iraq was as a leading subcontractor to Halliburton /KBR. The Houston, Texas firm had won multibillion Army logistics contracts to build US military camps around Iraq.

To handle the exploding work load and increase its profits following the March 2003 invasion, First Kuwaiti rushed to hire low-wage workers from South Asia for the lucrative construction contracts. Today, as one of the Pentagon’s larger “body shops,” First Kuwaiti employs 7,500 laborers for the nearly $2 billion in US contracts it has signed over the past three years.

But the boom in business has not been without controversy. Some of those workers as well as the news media have repeatedly accused First Kuwaiti of coercing recruits to go to Iraq against their will, and once in Iraq, of providing them with substandard housing, food and medical care.

Ramil Autencio and other Filipinos who worked for First Kuwaiti in late 2003 and early 2004 said that they experienced the bad conditions first hand after the company strong-armed them into working on a US military base in Tikrit, Iraq.' http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14178

[pooja]

1. Its sad to award our money to a company that employs cheap

workers from impoverished countries. Sign another check congress...

[bridgit]

3. can you imagine what they will do to the indigenous peoples of Paraguay

disgusting

[Marie26]

2. They're also building

the huge US embassy in Baghdad.

[bridgit]

4. yep, that's them...