Military contractor in Iraq holds foreign workers in warehouses (W/Video)

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By Adam Ashton | McClatchy Newspapers
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.

The laborers said they paid middlemen more than $2,000 to get to Iraq for jobs that they were told would earn them $600 to $800 a month. Some of the men took out loans to cover the fees.

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You would think that with the Recession (Depression) and unemployment in America they should have to hire Americans to work these jobs instead of foreign "slave" labor. But the again, we should not be there at all.
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