Possible toxic exposure worries Hoosier soldiers

[douglas9]

Source: South Bend Tribune


Indiana National Guard soldiers assigned to guard a water treatment plant in the southeastern Iraq city were greeted with looters, angry residents, blistering heat and wind-driven dust. For most who have been there, it is a place to forget.

But for hundreds of soldiers and workers who spent time there, forgetting Qarmat Ali may prove impossible -- as impossible as forgetting the poisonous time bomb it may have left in their bodies.

The Indiana National Guard notified more than 400 soldiers who served at the plant shortly after the beginning of the war that they may have been exposed to a deadly carcinogen.

Some believe that a civilian contracting agency in charge of the site knew of the contamination and did little to protect those working there

Read more: http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20080914&Category=News01&ArtNo=809140312&SectionCat=News&Template=printart

[jeff30997]

1. That's horrible !

Add that with all the depleted Uranium poisoning and PTSD.What a bunch of monsters.

[formercia]

3. No wonder Mooselini didn't want to visit Iraq.

Iraq is for serfs only.

[AwakeAtLast]

2. "A civilian contracting agency"

Hmmmm.... I wonder which agency that would be? :eyes:

I believe they have been trying to contact them for quite some time now - I think this is news again because they haven't found all of them. Don't really know how that's possible, but hey, it is the military.