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Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR

A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident.

Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she'd be out of a job.

The full (heart-wrenching) story is here: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3977702&page=1

I have only one question: How do we make sure nothing of this sort happens to a Briton?

Are our regeneration policies complacent?

Centre for Cities, which is an urban policy group that's just split off from the IPPR, has released some interesting new research that should make us less complacent when it comes to regeneration policy.