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[US] House panel probes charges of human trafficking in Iraq embassy project
A pair of whistleblowers alleged Thursday that the contractor selected to build the U.S. embassy in Iraq "kidnapped" foreign nationals to work on the $592 million construction project... John Owens and Rory Mayberry, both former employees of First Kuwaiti Trading & Contracting Co., told members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that workers...were tricked into boarding planes to Baghdad and then forced to work and live in squalid -- and often dangerous -- conditions. [also refers to KBR]