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.
New evidence reveals previously unreported instances of appalling living conditions, abuse and coerced labor in the building of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.
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.
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.
Companies like Halliburton are importing 'third country nationals' -- and putting them to work in horrible conditions -- to fulfill their U.S. government contracts.
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.