Woman awarded nearly $3 million in rape claim against Halliburton/KBR

An arbitrator has awarded a woman nearly $3 million to settle her claims that she was raped in Iraq by a US state department employee in 2005 while working for a former Halliburton subsidiary. Court records filed this week show Tracy Barker was awarded $2.93m to settle her claim against military contractor KBR. Barker had sued Houston-based Halliburton and its former KBR subsidiary in May 2007, alleging she was sexually attacked while working as a civilian contractor in Basra, Iraq.