KBR employee benefits (or lack thereof)

It's not exactly surprising to learn that Halliburton subsidiary, KBR, can treat its Iraqi employees shabbily but Dahr Jamail's recent post about the experience of Ahlam Abt Al-Hassan carries particular poignancy. Young and in need of work to support her relatives she was a KBR employee for under 3 months when she was shot and blinded by a member of al-Sadr's Mehdi Army for being a collaborator. KBR made virtually no effort to contact her and provided her with no support of any kind despite having assured her that it was safe to come to work. Full story here.