Yeah, support the troops, blah, blah, blah.
I know these guys technically "contractors," but WTF?!
See: Iraq for Sale
"US workers in Mideast find hurdles in local courts; American firms' policies block employees' suits" by Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | August 7, 2008
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - .... DynCorp, one of the largest US defense contractors in Iraq, is one of a small but growing number of US companies that mandate the use of courts in the Middle East to resolve disputes with their American employees. The practice frequently serves to block employees' lawsuits, legal specialists say, because few are able to navigate a still-developing foreign legal system in a distant land.
By lessening the threat of lawsuits, the practice makes it easier for US defense contractors to fire workers and deny them benefits they were promised in exchange for agreeing to undertake dangerous assignments, according to international labor specialists.
DynCorp is not alone in employing strategies to limit its liability in dangerous locations, where the potential for employee lawsuits is great. The Houston-based construction giant KBR mandates that its employees sign arbitration agreements, barring its employees from filing suits in the United States or abroad. Blackwater, a major private security company, recently asked a US court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by widows of American soldiers killed in a plane crash because the crash happened in Afghanistan. Blackwater lawyers argued that Afghan courts should have jurisdiction.
DynCorp set up its Dubai subsidiary in 2002, around the same time that two former employees filed high-profile lawsuits accusing the company of firing them for going public with complaints about a sex trafficking ring in Bosnia run by DynCorp colleagues.
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Yeah, THAT LAST ONE SURE GETS COVERED UP by the AmeriKan MSM!!!!
