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December 4, 2008

Iraqi Guards Open Fire on KBR Worker Protest
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In Iraq, armed guards opened fire Wednesday at a crowd of some 1,000
migrant workers protesting their poor treatment under the military
contractor KBR. The workers have spent the past three months in Iraq
awaiting work for a KBR subcontractor, but instead they’ve been walled
off and held in three large warehouses near Baghdad airport without pay.
Some paid up to $3,000 for the opportunity to work in Iraq. Many are
expected to be sent out of Iraq without having worked a day. Meanwhile,
KBR is facing a lawsuit for allegedly exposing National Guard members to
chemical exposure in Iraq. More on that story after headlines.



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