Slog - Comments on American Woman Alleges She Was Drugged and Gang-Raped in Baghdad http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a By fellow Americans. Several of her male coworkers at Halliburton's then-subsidiary KBR. That's her above, in the photo that accompanies yesterday's story on ABC News's website. Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she'd be out of a job. Read the whole thing. This story's awful. Over two years later, the Justice Department has brought no criminal charges in the... Copyright 2008 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:28:35 -0800 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:34:56 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Greg That's horrible. Can't we issue bounties for these guys? Or, failing that, publish their names, pictures, addresses, and emails in every major American city?

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871187 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871187 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:38:19 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Inconveniently for Justice, Defense, State, and Bush, her champion is a right-wing Texas Republican and war supporter, the disturbingly named Mr. Poe.

I hope that the very first thing the new President does on January 20, 2009 is issue an executive order barring the employment of any past or present Halliburton or KBR employee by any part of the Federal Government.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871203 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871203 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:47:00 -0800 Comment by infrequent this is terrible. justice needs to be served here, and people need to be better protected in the future from these types of crimes.

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871205 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871205 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:47:55 -0800 Comment by Packratt Sadly, this is what happens when there is no accountability nor oversight.

Poor girl.

]]> Packratt http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871223 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871223 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:58:27 -0800 Comment by Irena "Congressman Poe"???

]]> Irena http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871226 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871226 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:00:08 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Everybody with my name is a piece of shit. Yeah, yeah. Get it all out. C'mon.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871230 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871230 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:03:02 -0800 Comment by infrequent i hear this story, and i'm glad they got her out alive. the guard that let her use his phone might have saved her life. rescuing her was heroic. (and damning, since they found her in the container.) seriously, there needs to be some justice here.

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871231 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871231 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:03:17 -0800 Comment by infrequent hey packratt (another victim needing justice) - ever thought of filing a civil suit against any of the "witnesses" the police interviewed upon your arrest? i mean, they have to have names, right?

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871235 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871235 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:05:47 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Au contraire, Mr. Poe. Your congressional namesake is pursuing this with zeal and integrity.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871236 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871236 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:06:46 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Is he? I didn't read it. I tend to not read about rape as much as possible, actually.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871240 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871240 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:10:15 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe She looks like somebody famous...I can't pin it...

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871243 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871243 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:11:44 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Why don't we waterboard Bush and Cheney about this for a few weeks just to be sure ... at GITMO.

I'm sure they'll confess they did it ... themselves.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871244 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871244 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:12:37 -0800 Comment by Jason Josephes If it's true, this is a terrible thing.

]]> Jason Josephes http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871284 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871284 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:37:13 -0800 Comment by Packratt @8

Need to find a lawyer I can afford who will listen first. But thanks for the suggestion.

]]> Packratt http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871292 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871292 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:45:36 -0800 Comment by Mike in MO How long 'til some Faux News jerkoff implies the slut was asking for it?

]]> Mike in MO http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871293 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871293 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:47:00 -0800 Comment by Mike in MO How long 'til some Faux News jerkoff implies the slut was asking for it?

]]> Mike in MO http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871304 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871304 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:53:07 -0800 Comment by J Several of my friends in the Navy have been sent to Iraq to fill in where the Army doesn't have enough boots. The women all hear the same two pieces of advice from women who have been there:
1. Make yourself as unattractive as you're able.
2. Stay away from contractors.

My sense is these incidents are far too common over there and I hope she inspires others to come forward.

]]> J http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871305 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871305 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:53:33 -0800 Comment by Mike in MO oops, I haven't double posted in forever! My bad...

]]> Mike in MO http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871306 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871306 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:53:57 -0800 Comment by Ayarkay I'm disturbed that I have yet to see this story on any major news outlets (other than ABC, of course). It's been on blogs all day but a check of CNN and WaPo (that's as far as my research got, sorry) shows they haven't touched the story yet. What's up?

#11, I think she looks like a country singer. I don't know which one though.

]]> Ayarkay http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871308 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871308 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:55:52 -0800 Comment by chi type Didn't they just murder a bunch of people with impunity last month? Why should they worry about getting away with a little gang rape?

]]> chi type http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871322 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871322 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:01:31 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV @11--she looks like a young Catherine O'Hara, of SCTV, Waiting for Guffmann, and Home Alone fame.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871345 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871345 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:16:55 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe She's like a bunk balance of O'Hara and Griffin.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871366 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871366 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:27:41 -0800 Comment by Irena I was thinking Lucinda Williams.

]]> Irena http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871369 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871369 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:28:28 -0800 Comment by Packratt @8

Here, I posted about why it's actually so difficult to get a lawyer to file suit in my blog in case you want the long of it...

http://packratt.blogspot.com/2007/12/justice-is-not-for-all-of-us.html

]]> Packratt http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871374 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871374 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:34:55 -0800 Comment by M Of course her attackers need to be brought to justice, but what was she thinking working for Halliburton in the first place? Like signing on with Satan's workshop.

]]> M http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871378 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871378 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:38:36 -0800 Comment by infrequent @25 interesting way to blame the victim...

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871391 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871391 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:52:10 -0800 Comment by Joshua The legal loophole also means those good folks at Blackwater are free to go vigilante on the perpetrators of the crime.

]]> Joshua http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871424 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871424 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:11:01 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi If those bastards thought/knew they could get away with assaulting an American, I shudder to think of what they're doing to Iraqi women. Then there's the additional horror of some of those women subsequently being the victims of honor killings.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871429 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871429 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:16:26 -0800 Comment by Natalie The link is to the second page of three, FYI.

]]> Natalie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871456 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871456 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:29:20 -0800 Comment by ellarosa 28, i was thinking the same thing. what has derek schlesinger and his ilk been up to over there that we'll never find out about, and that they'll never be punished for. and then it's the poor victims who get axed due to their barbarian religion if anyone of their own finds out about it. just so awful.

]]> ellarosa http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871528 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871528 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:02:33 -0800 Comment by Eric @11. Hillary Swank

]]> Eric http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871592 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c871592 News Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:49:05 -0800 Comment by Joy Of course this is awful. She didn't deserve it, blah, blah...But stay the fuck out of Baghdad.

]]> Joy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c872680 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/american_woman_alleges_she_was_drugged_a#c872680 News Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:34:56 -0800