BS: Bringin' Freedom to Eye-Rack

Subject: BS: Bringin' Freedom to Eye-Rack
From: Greg F.
Date: 16 Oct 05 - 02:32 PM

Cheap labor flows to Iraq:
Halliburton unit is tapping pipeline of illicit workers for U.S. military jobs in war zone

By CAM SIMPSON and AAMER MADHANI, Chicago Tribune
First published: Sunday, October 16, 2005

American tax dollars and the wartime needs of the U.S. military are fueling an illicit pipeline of cheap foreign labor, mainly impoverished Asians who often deceived, exploited and put in harm's way in Iraq with little protection.

The United States has long condemned the practices that characterize this human trade as it operates elsewhere in the Middle East. Yet this very system is now part of the privatization of the American war effort and is central to the operations of Halliburton subsidiary KBR, the U.S. military's biggest private contractor in Iraq...

Subject: RE: BS: Bringin' Freedom to Eye-Rack
From: Peace
Date: 16 Oct 05 - 06:06 PM

Private industry at its finest.

Subject: RE: BS: Bringin' Freedom to Eye-Rack
From: akenaton
Date: 16 Oct 05 - 06:24 PM

From Chicago Tribune a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/chi-nepal-1-story,1,7531104.story?coll=chi-news-hed">Link

Subject: RE: BS: Bringin' Freedom to Eye-Rack
From: Peace
Date: 16 Oct 05 - 06:27 PM

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/chi-nepal-1-story,1,7531104.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Subject: RE: BS: Bringin' Freedom to Eye-Rack
From: akenaton
Date: 16 Oct 05 - 06:30 PM

link

Subject: RE: BS: Bringin' Freedom to Eye-Rack
From: Peace
Date: 16 Oct 05 - 06:31 PM

Sorry, Ake. Cross posted.

Subject: RE: BS: Bringin' Freedom to Eye-Rack
From: akenaton
Date: 16 Oct 05 - 06:32 PM

Sorry Bruce ...Made a bollocks of that...Ake

Subject: RE: BS: Bringin' Freedom to Eye-Rack
From: dianavan
Date: 16 Oct 05 - 10:24 PM

I had heard of this before but it involved Philippinos. This is just another form of human trafficing - an extension of the slave trade. I am thoroughly disgusted.

BTW - I don't have a subscription, so what happens in part 2?

What was his message to his mother?

Is he still alive or was he executed?