U.S. Navy investigates report of cancer cluster at Guantanamo

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

US | Mon Jul 27, 2015 6:41pm EDT

U.S. Navy investigates report of cancer cluster at Guantanamo

NEW YORK | BY DAVID ROHDE

The U.S. Navy is investigating a complaint that seeks the evacuation of civilian and military lawyers from parts of the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, following reports of cancer cases among personnel working on the trials of detainees there.

At least seven civilians and military members who worked on detainee trials at Guantanamo Bay have been diagnosed with cancer, according to the complaint, which was filed with the U.S. Defense Department’s Office of the Inspector General. The complaint calls on American military officials to remove personnel from court facilities on the base and test them and the base itself for carcinogens.

The complaint claims that an unusually large number of relatively healthy and young people who worked at the base have been diagnosed with cancer. Over the past decade, roughly 200 prosecutors, defense lawyers and other court personnel have worked on the base.

The complaint says that the patients may have been exposed to carcinogens when they lived and worked in a location at Guantanamo that was formerly used to dispose of jet fuel, adjacent to an abandoned runway. The patients may also have been exposed to toxins such as asbestos in an older building that initially hosted military trials, according to the complaint.

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1. good luck to them

but they are going to have to save their own lives. Cancer clusters are always deemed to be coincidental - toxic chemicals do not harm people - it is all in their imagination.
Why? There is not one business lobbying group in the US that wants to see any recognition of illnesses caused by toxic chemicals. They wish to poison at will - otherwise the flood gates will open.