More Songs About Buildings & Food

Wrap-up (maybe, maybe not, you can't really trust slime who would essentially hold people prisoner for potential profit) of the people held prisoner for potential profit story from McClatchy.

And once we read the story, it looks as if these guys are screwed, period. Months of living like a homeless person/PoW, w/o pay, & it's pretty damn obvious Najlaa Catering has no intention of paying them.

About 400 were taken on buses to the airport Wednesday to board planes for Dubai, a hub for flights in and out of Iraq. Flights weren't available, however, and the men were returned to the warehouses. Kodithuwakku said that about 160 were asked to get on buses again Thursday night, but they were holding out for stronger guarantees that Najlaa would pay them. [...] Rizk told McClatchy this week that the company had encountered unspecified obstacles to its contracts in Iraq that delayed the jobs it anticipated giving the men. He said Najlaa took care of the men's basic health and safety needs, though the workers have complained about poor food and inadequate restrooms. Spokesmen for the Multi-National Forces-Iraq have declined several requests for comment about the warehouses this week.

Reminder: The AmeriKKKan liberators are so loved in Iraq that the contractor's sub-contractor has to hire exploitable poor people from thousands of miles away to handle food & cooking, out of fear that Iraqi workers would poison "our" troops. What a colossal, pathetic joke. Yet no one laughs.