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Via ABC News, the third allegation of rape (and cover-up) against KBR to emerge in recent months:
Yet another woman has come forward saying she was brutally raped in Iraq while working for the U.S. contractor Kellogg Brown Root (KBR).
Dawn Leamon, who has two sons on active duty, says she was raped earlier this year by a U.S. soldier and a KBR colleague.
She will tell her horrific story to members of Congress today at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
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Joshua Holland is an editor and senior writer at AlterNet.
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