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Titolo: Massacri, torture... Cosa mancava? Ah, sì: lo schiavismo!

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/zweifel/index.php?ntid=58012
Halliburton's new low in treachery
By Dave Zweifel
The Chicago Tribune produced an incredible story last week detailing
how unsuspecting young men from poor countries are tricked into
working in dangerous jobs for a Halliburton subsidiary in Iraq.
The two-part series retraced the journey of a group of Nepalese men
who were lured to the Mideast with fraudulent paperwork that promised
them jobs at a luxury hotel in Amman, Jordan, but instead wound up in
Iraq working for the Halliburton subsidiary KBR, America's biggest
private contractor there.
What was even more startling was the stories' revelation that the
operation is financed with U.S. taxpayer money.
According to the Tribune, American tax dollars and the wartime needs
of the U.S. military are fueling an illicit pipeline of cheap foreign
labor into Iraq.
Most of those falling for the fraudulent job offers are impoverished
Asians who, the newspaper said, "often are deceived, exploited and put
in harm's way with little protection."
The Tribune got on the story after 12 young civilians from Nepal were
kidnapped by terrorists in Iraq and a few days later publicly
slaughtered.
The newspaper sent a reporter and photographer to Nepal, where they
interviewed families and friends and soon discovered that thousands of
men are routinely recruited for "good" Mideast jobs, but wind up in
the most treacherous stretches of Iraq territory working in private
jobs for the U.S. military.
A brother of one of the kidnapped men told Cam Simpson, the Trib
reporter, that the last time he heard from his brother was when he
called from his supposed job in Jordan.
He was being sent against his will to Iraq, the brother said, and then
blurted out, "I am done for."
The phone then went dead.
The next time the young Nepalese was seen was on a TV screen two weeks
later, his hands tied behind his back and a gun pointed at his head.
Simpson reported that the trail of those dozen men from Nepal revealed
a chain of brokers, middlemen and subcontractors along the way, all of
whom stood to profit from the trade.
To maintain the flow of cheap labor that is key to the military
support and reconstruction in Iraq, the U.S. military has allowed KBR
to partner with subcontractors that hire workers from Nepal and other
countries that prohibit their citizens from being deployed in Iraq,
the story said.
That means that the brokers operate illicitly and falsify documents
that describe far different jobs near Iraq, which eventually turn out
to be smack dab in the middle of the country.
"Even after foreign workers discover they have been lured to the
Middle East under false pretenses, many say they have little choice
but to continue into Iraq or stay longer than planned," the story
continued.
"They feel trapped because they must repay huge fees demanded by
brokers."
KBR, which has a multibillion-dollar contract with the U.S. Defense
Department, pays the subcontractors for finding it employees to do the
cleanup and rebuilding work in Iraq.
The tentacles of this war keep getting this country deeper and deeper
into places we shouldn't be, including this atrocious practice that
the Chicago Tribune has uncovered.

 Halliburton's new low in treachery
Pero' non vedo nulla che sostenga un contatto diretto con la
Halliburton.
Infatti parla di fantomatici "brokers" a cui dovrebbero pagare elevate
"fees" se rifiutassero il lavoro (cosa che possono fare, e quindi lo
*SCHIAVISMO* o prode Namib sta solo nella tua mente bacata, come al
solito).
-Stefano