KBR may have poisoned 100,000 people in Iraq: lawsuit

[unhappycamper]

KBR may have poisoned 100,000 people in Iraq: lawsuit
By Daniel Tencer
Monday, November 9th, 2009 -- 10:33 am

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.

At least 22 separate lawsuits claiming KBR poisoned American soldiers in Iraq have been combined into a single massive lawsuit that says KBR, which until not long ago was a subsidiary of Halliburton, sought to save money by disposing of toxic waste and incinerating numerous potentially harmful substances in open-air "burn pits."

According to one of the lawsuits (PDF), filed in a federal court in Nashville, KBR burned "tires, lithium batteries ... biohazard materials (including human corpses), medical supplies (including those used during smallpox inoculations), paints, solvents, asbestos insulation, items containing pesticides, polyvinyl chloride pipes, animal carcasses, dangerous chemicals, and hundreds of thousands of plastic water bottles."

And they did so within plain sight of US troops operating in Iraq, the lawsuit states. "In some instances, the burn pit smoke was so bad that it interfered with the military mission," the Nashville lawsuit states. "For example, the military located at Camp Bucca, a detention facility, had difficulty guarding the facility as a result of the smoke."

The plaintiffs note that the military "did not prevent" KBR from disposing of the waste "in a safe manner that would not have harmed plaintiffs. The military wanted the defendants to solve the burn pit problems."


Rest of article at: http://rawstory.com/2009/11/kbr-poisoned-100000-lawsuit/

[happy2bhere]

1. lazy bastards

why didn't they just dump it in the ocean like everyone else does? duh


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[imdjh]

2. lol

[nc4bo]

3. Ahh, the winning of hearts and minds, open arms and all such nonsense.

Plus a little going away gift. And silly pukes wonder why we're so hated (and feared) by so many.

We even poison our own in the name of Freeing the Ira....errr........the oil.

I'd hate us too.

[TheWraith]

4. I wonder how many people were sickened by all the fires in the first Gulf War.

Between the bombing of chemical weapons sites, and the oilfield fires, Iraq circa 1991 had to be a stew of toxic chemicals.

[nc4bo]

6. Geez, thanks for the reminder.

I have a cancer group that I take art classes with and among them are several veterans from the Gulf War.

Not only have they gotten cancer but a myriad of other health issues, especially neurological problems.

[TheWraith]

8. A lot of those chemical weapons were neurotoxins.

Another reason why nerve gas falls into the category of "Things we wish we could dis-invent."

[Echo In Light]

5. Evil is their busine$$, and busine$$ is good

[Sinti]

7. "including human corpses" - I didn't know they were in the crematorium business

holy smoke. This is all legal to do, if you don't do it in plain sight - we only find out because people were close enough, so apparently it wasn't secret/unlawful?