Stories by David Phinney
Charges of heinous abuses of workers have long dogged the reconstruction effort.
Posted on Jul 25, 2007
When Ramil Autencio arrived in Iraq, he had the promise of a two-year job, making $450 a month to better life for himself and his family in the Philippines. What he got was a wartime nightmare.
Posted on Jun 20, 2007
New evidence reveals previously unreported instances of appalling living conditions, abuse and coerced labor in the building of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.
Posted on Jun 1, 2007
An American former Navy soldier and private contractor imprisoned and tortured in Iraq by the U.S. military and falsely accused of "aiding terrorists" warns that our worst fears about Iraq have come true.
Posted on Apr 7, 2007
The State Department quietly awarded a corrupt Kuwaiti company a $592-million contract to build the embassy in Iraq.
Posted on Oct 26, 2006
Heaping scandal upon scandal, the Kuwait company that won the contract to build the massive U.S. Embassy stands accused of using forced labor to fulfill its contracts.
Posted on Mar 8, 2006
Companies like Halliburton are importing 'third country nationals' -- and putting them to work in horrible conditions -- to fulfill their U.S. government contracts.
Posted on Oct 15, 2005
Tension and confusion are on the rise in Iraq after a group of American security contractors were thrown in jail under suspicion of shooting at the U.S. Marines in Fallujah.
Posted on Jun 9, 2005
Add rancid meat and food crawling with bugs to the list of appalling conditions that Abu Ghraib prisoners were subject to.
Posted on Dec 17, 2004
