Soldiers claim war zone contractors (KBR) exposed them to toxins

Source: Nashville Post

Soldiers claim war zone contractors exposed them to toxins
Nashville lawsuit one of several over 'burn pits' in Iraq and Afghanistan alleged to contain dioxin, asbestos and human corpses

11-08-2009 11:06 PM —

Contractors working for the military in Iraq and Afghanistan are fouling the nests of U.S. soldiers with pollution, poisoning the troops in the very bases meant to be their sanctuaries.

That's the central allegation in a new set of lawsuits filed in Nashville and elsewhere across the country. The legal actions name as defendants the controversial contracting firm KBR Inc. (formerly Kellogg Brown and Root), as well as Halliburton Co., of which KBR used to be a subsidiary, and a Turkish general contracting firm, ERKA Ltd.

"These for-profit corporations callously exposed and continue to expose soldiers and others to toxic smoke, ash and fumes," says the complaint filed in Nashville on Friday, which asks for damages on behalf of two Tennessee soldiers. "These exposures are causing a host of serious diseases, increased risk of serious diseases in the future, death and increased risk of death."

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Defense contractor KBR may have exposed as many as 100,000 people, including US troops, to cancer-causing toxins by burning waste in open-air pits in Iraq, says a series of class-action lawsuits filed against the company.

http://business.nashvillepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/johnson_v_kbr_etal-usdc-6nov2009.pdf

and never ending insane illegal wars.

why do i get the sense that the american public could give a fuck less about this?

ah yes, i get that sense due to the total lack of outrage.

will express the same amount of outrage that they did over the ACORN scandal. Why haven't the bastards running this company been thrown in prison yet?