Saw this via Jeff Hoard's post U.S. Embassy Built by 'Slaves'?. A US Embassy is under construction in the green zone in Baghdad. At a cost of $592 million it will be the largest US Embassy in the world, able to support a thousand people and is apparently about the size of Vatican City. It's being built by a Kuwaiti company called First Kuwait.
The Washington Post reports Foreign Workers Abused at Embassy, Panel Told. "Two American civilian contractors who worked on a massive U.S. Embassy construction project in Baghdad told Congress yesterday that foreign laborers were deceptively recruited and trafficked to Iraq to toil at the site, where they experienced physical abuse and substandard working conditions."
YouTube has videos of the hearing. Mayberry's Opening was the most interesting (and damning):
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