Reply #17: Military Contractor in Iraq Holds Foreign Workers in Warehouses

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/03-7

Military Contractor in Iraq Holds Foreign Workers in Warehouses

by Adam Ashton

"BAGHDAD - About 1,000 Asian men who were hired by a Kuwaiti subcontractor to the U.S. military have been confined for as long as three months in windowless warehouses near the Baghdad airport without money or a place to work.

Najlaa International Catering Services, a subcontractor to KBR, an engineering, construction and services company, hired the men, who're from India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. On Tuesday, they staged a march outside their compound to protest their living conditions."