By Bridget Budbill | Seattlepi.com
Allegations of worker abuse and kidnapping by the First Kuwaiti Trading and Contracting Co., the contractor selected to build the U.S. embassy in Iraq, were flying today before members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Former American employees John Owens and Rory Mayberry testified that First Kuwait "kidnapped" foreign low-wage laborers to work on the $592 million construction project by lying to them about where they were going.
"...As I found out later, these men thought they had signed up to work in Dubai hotels. One fellow I met told me in broken English that he was excited to start his new job as a telephone repair man.
They had no idea they were being sent to do construction work on the U.S. Embassy."
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