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16 Oct 05 - 02:32 PM (#1584210) Subject: BS: Bringin' Freedom to Eye-Rack From: Greg F. 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... |
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16 Oct 05 - 06:06 PM (#1584296) Subject: RE: BS: Bringin' Freedom to Eye-Rack From: Peace Private industry at its finest. |
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16 Oct 05 - 06:27 PM (#1584311) Subject: RE: BS: Bringin' Freedom to Eye-Rack From: Peace http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/chi-nepal-1-story,1,7531104.story?coll=chi-news-hed |
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16 Oct 05 - 06:30 PM (#1584316) Subject: RE: BS: Bringin' Freedom to Eye-Rack From: akenaton link |
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16 Oct 05 - 06:31 PM (#1584317) Subject: RE: BS: Bringin' Freedom to Eye-Rack From: Peace Sorry, Ake. Cross posted. |
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16 Oct 05 - 06:32 PM (#1584320) Subject: RE: BS: Bringin' Freedom to Eye-Rack From: akenaton Sorry Bruce ...Made a bollocks of that...Ake |
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16 Oct 05 - 10:24 PM (#1584371) Subject: RE: BS: Bringin' Freedom to Eye-Rack From: dianavan 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? |