Military contractor in Iraq holds foreign workers in warehouses (updated)

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By Adam Ashton
McClatchy Newspapers
12/02/2008

BAGHDAD — About 1,000 Asian men who were hired by a Kuwaiti subcontractor to the U.S. military have been confined for as long as three months in windowless warehouses near the Baghdad airport without money or a place to work.

Najlaa International Catering Services, a subcontractor to KBR, the Texas firm formerly known as Halliburton, hired the men, who’re from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. On Tuesday, they staged a march outside their compound to protest their living conditions.

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via McClatchy Washington Bureau | 12/02/2008 | Military contractor in Iraq holds foreign workers in warehouses plus video report

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KBR/Halliburton Confines Workers In (Worse Than) Prison-Like Conditions

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Warehoused Asian workers in Iraq will be sent home

By Adam Ashton
McClatchy Newspapers
Dec. 4, 2008

BAGHDAD — Asian men who’ve been living in warehouses near the Baghdad airport while awaiting promised jobs with a military subcontractor now are in line to be sent home, and they’re still not sure how they’ll be paid for their time in Iraq.

Tensions simmered throughout the week at a compound where about 1,000 men from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka spoke out against their treatment by Najlaa International Catering Services, the Kuwaiti company that hired them for work in Iraq.

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via McClatchy Washington Bureau | 12/04/2008 | Warehoused Asian workers in Iraq will be sent home.