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Document Summary
Contents include:
- Accounts of a widely-reported December 2008 incident when around 1,000 TCNs were held in deplorable conditions at Baghdad International Airport for several months without pay (Pages 16-94; 95-136; 141-146; 150-154; 158-160);
- A September 2009 Iraqi government memo regarding TCNs and an April 2009 NPR story detailing the hiring of South Asian TCNs for work in Iraq (Pages 137-139; 147-148);
- Allegations of a TCN recruited to work in Iraq but driven to the outskirts of the city, dropped off, and told to wait for someone who never showed up (Pages 156-157);
- Correspondence between the U.S. State Department and KBR regarding whether KBR complies with U.S. and Iraqi labor laws and policies (Pages 171-196).
Expanded summary: Expanded Summary DoS Pages 16-219
FOIA docs: Documents DoS Pages 16-94; Documents DoS Pages 95-219
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