{"id":5428,"date":"2007-12-11T13:38:02","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T21:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5428"},"modified":"2007-12-12T06:14:05","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T14:14:05","slug":"video-state-department-intervenes-to-rescue-american-from-halliburton-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5428","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: State Department Intervenes To Rescue American From Halliburton In Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest Blogged by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotpotatomash.com\">Alan Breslauer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bR5FaYRL6aQ\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"240\" height=\"198\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"6\" align=\"right\"><\/embed>The State Department stepped in and literally &#8220;rescued&#8221; a 22-year-old woman being held captive by Halliburton in Iraq for 24-hours in a shipping container without food and water after she reported being gang raped in 2005, according to Representative Ted Poe (R-TX), who intervened after being contacted by the victim&#8217;s father. <\/p>\n<p>Yet none of the &#8220;six or seven perpetrators&#8221; has been brought to justice and it is not even clear if an investigation was ever conducted. Attorney Brian Wice surmises that the DoD, State Department, and DoJ have not pursued the case further because they &#8220;don&#8217;t want this case to see the inside of a United States courtroom.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Reprentative Poe also believes that the federal government has the obligation to pursue the case and &#8220;hold [the perpetrators] accountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC&#8217;s Dan Abram&#8217;s coverage is at right. Visit the victim&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/jamiesfoundation.org\/\">Foundation<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer The State Department stepped in and literally &#8220;rescued&#8221; a 22-year-old woman being held captive by Halliburton in Iraq for 24-hours in a shipping container without food and water after she reported being gang raped in 2005, according to Representative Ted Poe (R-TX), who intervened after being contacted by the victim&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[223,231,24],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dept-of-justice","category-halliburton","category-iraq-war"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5428"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}