$592 Million US Embassy in Iraq

FKTC, a construction firm in Kuwait has been accused of exploiting employees and bullying low-paid laborers to work in Iraq to build the new $592 mln US Embassy in Baghdad. Apparently, it will be the largest most equiped diplomatic compound in the world. The walls will be 15 feet thick or more and all of this will be completed by summer next year.

What a lucrative business - 3 yrs ago, the Kuwaiti construction company only had $35 mln in assets, today, it is well past $1 billion mark. I think it is so evil of this firm to actually give the workers an ultimatum that they either work in Iraq or they would be released on the streets of Kuwait City. Obviously, they don't have the resources to fly back home.

What a cruel world we live in. More money, more greed, more cruelty.

Source: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021206D.shtml