Another female employee of the military contractor KBR has come forward with allegations of rape in Iraq. The woman, identified by the pseudonym “Lisa Smith,” says two colleagues raped her at a southern Iraqi military base in January. She says a supervisor told her to “keep quiet” or face danger. “Lisa Smith” will be testifying publicly tomorrow before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Last year, former KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones sued KBR and its former parent company Halliburton after she says she was drugged and gang-raped by employees of the company in Baghdad.
. Additional reporting by Te-Ping Chen. Research support provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute
That dawn, naked, covered in blood and feces, bleeding from her anus, she found a US soldier she did not know lying naked in the bed next to her: his gun lay on the floor beside the bed, she could not rouse him and all she could remember of the night before was screaming and screaming as the soldier anally penetrated her while a colleague who worked for defense contractor KBR held her hand–but instead of helping her, as she had hoped, he jammed his penis in her mouth.
You can read the whole interview with Amy Goodman here.
Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson sits on this committee, it will be interesting if he speaks or offers any comfort or outrage at her testimoney. I will be calling his office if his comments are anything but respectful and don’t offer to change the disgraceful situation with KBR ( in the Vietnam era, also known as Kill, Burn and Rape)and Haliburton.
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