Cover-Up: KBR Contractors Kidnap and Gang-Rape Woman in Shipping Crate in Iraq

Just one more example of lawlessness of mercenaries and contractors in Iraq:

Jamie Leigh Jones, 22, was held in a shipping container by several contract workers from KBR/Halliburton (who are paid with our tax dollars) who, over the span of twenty four hours, drugged, beat, and gang raped her.
"In a lawsuit filed in federal court against Halliburton and its then-subsidiary KBR, Jones says she was held in the shipping container for at least 24 hours without food or water by KBR, which posted armed security guards outside her door, who would not let her leave... she convinced a sympathetic guard to loan her a cell phone so she could call her father in Texas. [She] said, 'Dad, I've been raped. I don't know what to do. I'm in this container, and I'm not able to leave,'" she said. Her father called their congressman, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas. from the agonist

Texas State Representative Ted Poe then phones the State Department and they immediately sent agents who discovered her in the container. She went from there to a nearby Army Hospital where doctors confirmed that she had been vaginally and anally raped (their exact words were "very torn up down there). After performing a rape-kit on her, the evidence just disappears. Jones alleges it's a coverup.

But criminally, none of this matters. These guys will never be tried in criminal court. Because of a massive legislative loophole for contractors and mercenaries in Iraq, none of Jamie Leigh Jones' rapists will be tried.

Over two years later, the Justice Department has brought no criminal charges in the matter. In fact, ABC News could not confirm any federal agency was investigating the case.

Legal experts say Jones' alleged assailants will likely never face a judge and jury, due to an enormous loophole that has effectively left contractors in Iraq beyond the reach of United States law.

"It's very troubling," said Dean John Hutson of the Franklin Pierce Law Center. "The way the law presently stands, I would say that they don't have, at least in the criminal system, the opportunity for justice."

But that's not it. Jamie Leigh Jones is going into civil court in an effort to have her story heard and to seek the last tethers of justice she may be able to get. But KBR is making motions to have the hearing in private arbitration, and says her contract with the company requires it.

Listen to Jamie Leigh Jones testifying before US Judiciary Committee.