Tracy Barker says she was raped in Iraq by a US state department employee while working as a civilian contractor

• Associated Press
• guardian.co.uk, Thursday 19 November 2009 20.55 GMT
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An arbitrator has awarded a woman nearly $3m (£1.8m) 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.

The Associated Press doesn't usually identify those who report they were sexually assaulted, but Barker made her identity public in her lawsuit.