Suit claims Halliburton, KBR sickened base

[kpete]

Source: Army Times

Suit claims Halliburton, KBR sickened base

By Kelly Kennedy - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Dec 4, 2008 18:47:40 EST

A Georgia man has filed a lawsuit against contractor KBR and its former parent company, Halliburton, saying the companies exposed everyone at Joint Base Balad in Iraq to unsafe water, food and hazardous fumes from the burn pit there.

Joshua Eller, who worked as a civilian computer-aided drafting technician with the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing, said military personnel, contractors and third-country nationals may have been sickened by contamination at the largest U.S. installation in Iraq, home to more than 30,000 service members, Defense Department civilians and contractors.

“Defendants promised the United States government that they would supply safe water for hygienic and recreational uses, safe food supplies and properly operate base incinerators to dispose of medical waste safely,” according to the lawsuit, filed Nov. 26 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. “Defendants utterly failed to perform their promised duties.”

Eller and his attorneys are seeking to have the lawsuit declared a class action.

Read more: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/12/military_kbr_lawsuit_121508w/

[liberalmuse]

1. I've heard stories from soldiers who served in Iraq...

about food poisoning from Halliburton/KBR-run facilities. My personal opinion won't be popular here, but I feel that anyone who had any part in Halliburton/KBR/Blackwater should be put in prison for life. Believe me, you don't want to share the planet with these despicable human beings. They are able to justify ANYTHING if it makes them a few extra bucks. They are a fucking plague.

[acmavm]

2. Unpopular? Not with me. I say hang 'em all.

[lonestarnot]

3. CNN ran another story this a.m. re slaves imported from Nigeria, but have

I have been unsuccessful at getting a link yet. KBR nasty motherfuckers.