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Public Warehousing Company Highlights the Daily Star Article Regarding Whistleblowing

Washington, DC (PRWEB) November 9, 2007 - US Government contractor, the Public Warehousing Company (PWC) which has lost more than 30 employees providing food for 150,000 troops in Iraq, highlighted concerns raised in The Daily Star article on November 8, 2007 (http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20071108005625&newsLang=en). As Mike Abdulrahman, Iraq Country Manager for PWC has discovered, unprovoked attacks are not the only dangers of supplying food to a war zone, leaked information can be just as dangerous.

According to The Daily Star, the father of four woke on October 20th to find his name featured on the front page of a Wall Street Journal article in connection with a military corruption scandal he had originally reported to the US Army a year earlier. Despite being protected under 'confidential informant status', the newspaper publicly identified Abdulrahman for his role in helping the US Army arrest a senior officer, Lt. Colonel Marshall Gutierrez, for bribery. Gutierrez consequently committed suicide while under detention in a military base camp in Kuwait. The newspaper implied the 'leak' had come from an Army Charge sheet.

"All of a sudden, I am reading in the papers that I am a bad guy, then people start calling me and telling me that I am going to get hurt for telling the truth," says Abdulrahman. "It is both scary and totally bizarre. Everything that happened in reality was exactly reversed in the Wall Street Journal article. A man I helped catch on tape asking me for illegal kickbacks was being portrayed as an all-American hero and a victim. The company that reported the criminal activity was being vilified. It's incredible."

US citizen, Abdulrahman has taken on some tough assignments during the four-years of post-Saddam Iraq. Initially, he was a vocal-graphic analyst with security clearance for a special division of the US Marine Corps. Next, he was assigned to help lead operations for a USAID-funded non-profit organization in the central Euphrates region. It was after this that he became the Iraq Country Manager for PWC, managing the supply of food for approximately 150,000 American troops in Iraq, as well as being involved in other missions critical to the US government.

Since the article's publication, Abdulrahman says he has received intimidating anonymous phone messages threatening himself and his family for helping to expose Gutierrez. It has forced him to flee the country for his own safety.

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