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Sex charge hits British Embassy in Iraq

BAGHDAD (UPI) -- Several Iraqi employees in the British Embassy in Baghdad have charged a culture of sexual harassment, abuse and bullying exists in the facility.

One of the complainants, a middle-aged cleaner, told the Times of London a British contractor with KBR, a private contractor hired to maintain the embassy premises, offered to double her daily pay if she would spend the night with him.

She said she refused and was subsequently fired.

The Iraqis accuse the embassy of leaving the abuse unchallenged and failing adequately to respond to complaints against several British managers for KBR. The company was allowed to conduct its own inquiry, the paper said.

A British Foreign Office spokesman said the office is satisfied after discussing the matter at length with KBR.



Copyright 2008 by United Press International

This news arrived on: 05/08/2008
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