WhistleBlowers: Contractors-Used Armored Cars To Transport Hookers-Looted Palaces-Cheated Troops

[kpete]

DynCorp Manager Used Armored Car
To Transport Hookers in Iraq

Some explosive testimony this afternoon from a panel of whistleblowers testifying before a Senate committee on contractor abuse in Iraq.

A contractor died when a DynCorp manager used an employee’s armored car to transport prostitutes, according to Barry Halley, a Worldwide Network Services employee working under a DynCorp subcontract.

“DynCorp’s site manager was involved in bringing prostitutes into hotels operated by DynCorp. A co-worker unrelated to the ring was killed when he was travelling in an unsecure car and shot performing a high-risk mission. I believe that my co-worker could have survived if he had been riding in an armored car. At the time, the armored car that he would otherwise have been riding in was being used by the contractor’s manager to transport prostitutes from Kuwait to Baghdad.“

Other revelations:

- Kellogg Brown & Root contractors used to destroy countless quantities of still-usable equipment that was difficult to transport in “massive burn pits” that were “burning 24 hours a day.”

- KBR’s ice foreman “was cheating the troops out of ice at the same time that he was trading the ice for DVDs, CDs, food and other items at the Iraqi shops across the street.”

- When KBR whistleblower Frank Cassaday reported weapons looting, he was placed in a jail tent by KBR security.

- KBR employees looted Iraqi palaces for treasure to sell on eBay.

http://www.muckraked.com/wordpress/2008/04/28/dyncorp-manager-used-armored-car-to-transport-hookers-in-iraq/
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/5736383.html

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. I'm waiting for the 'Art Train' to leave Paris

[JeffR]

2. K & R

I'd love to see this get even a fraction as much of attention on this board as the putrescent, transparently phony pseudo-scandal spun around Reverend Wright, for example.

This kind of unmitigated, obscene criminality is precisely why we have to work hard to get Republicans out of office, from the Oval Office right down to the municipal level. The Republicans have not only allowed this to happen, they've worked hard to make it happen. They've destroyed Iraq and they won't rest until they've destroyed America. They must be stopped.

[Blue_Tires]

4. don't forget Fitzgerald

i hope someone starts calling for all these peoples' jobs as well

[JeffR]

6. And then for their heads,

in a better world than this one.

[pleah]

3. K&R

Thank you kpete.

[wildbilln864]

5. k&r! thank you kpete! nt

[barbtries]

7. will this be on c span?

and will something come of it? arrests? prosecutions? bankruptcies and disgraces? shame or remorse?

gawd at this point. just give me something. and to think that i am not even one of the directly victimized.

[L. Coyote]

8. WHO looted the Iraqi Museum of 12,000 years of history?? Millions $$$

Who did the National Museum in Mexico City job!!

[Disturbed]

9. US Corp Meida mostly ignores this.

I guess they figure that their viewers do not want to know about Bad News out of Iraq.