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Foreign Workers Held in Iraq

Contractor kept 1,000 Asian laborers 3 months in warehouses

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 3, 2008 7:34 PM CST

(Newser) – About 1,000 foreign workers brought to Iraq with the promise of lucrative jobs have been living for 3 months in Baghdad warehouses under poor sanitary conditions and in possible violation of US military rules, McClatchy reports. A Kuwaiti company that subcontracts with KBR, formerly... Read full story »

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