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Suit against KBR by Oregon National Guard goes forward in Portland

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By Julie Sullivan, The Oregonian Originally Published Oregonlive.com on May 19, 2010, 9:17PM Oregon Army National Guard veterans suing the largest war contractor in Iraq today in federal court in Portland acknowledge they’re waging an improbable fight. In February, the war contractor squashed a similar lawsuit by Indiana Guard who also claimed they were knowingly [...]

May 21st, 2010 | Posted in Oregon Live,Qarmat Ali News | Read More »

Houston Chronicle | Guardsmen allege KBR exposed them to carcinogens in Iraq

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By MARY FLOOD | Houston Chronicle More than 50 Indiana National Guardsmen have filed a lawsuit in Houston claiming KBR failed to warn them about exposure to carcinogenic chemicals at an Iraqi water facility they were guarding. An Indiana judge tossed out the same lawsuit over cancer-causing hexavalent chromium at the Basra-area water plant, saying [...]

April 6th, 2010 | Posted in Houston Chronicle,Qarmat Ali News | Read More »

Huffington Post Covers KBR Case

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KBR: Private Military Cancer (PMC) Provider? David Isenberg, Author, Shadow Force: Private Security Contractors in Iraq Yesterday Doyle Raizner LLP, the legal team for the Indiana National Guardsmen, whose claims against KBR were recently dismissed in Indiana federal court, refiled for the Guardsmen in Houston federal court. The suit alleges that KBR knowingly allowed exposure [...]

April 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Huffington Post,Qarmat Ali News | Read More »

Indiana National Guard soldiers re-file lawsuit against KBR

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by Star report of Indystar.com Attorneys for Indiana National Guard soldiers exposed to a dangerous chemical in Iraq have refilled their lawsuit against a military contractor in a federal court in Houston.The lawsuit claims that the contractor concealed the risks faced by nearly 140 Hoosier soldiers potentially exposed to a cancer-causing agent. The Guard soldiers [...]

April 2nd, 2010 | Posted in National Media,Qarmat Ali News | Read More »

Indiana soldiers refile exposure lawsuit

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By Eric Bradner of Evansville Courier & Press INDIANAPOLIS — After their lawsuit was dismissed in Indiana, attorneys for a group of National Guard soldiers have refiled it in Texas. The lawsuit against a defense contractor claims the company knew of the presence of a deadly toxin at a site the soldiers were guarding in [...]

April 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Evansville Courier,Qarmat Ali News | Read More »

Former Indiana Guard officer suing over exposure to chemical in Iraq dies

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Indiana National Guard troops gathered to say goodbye to one of their commanding officers on Tuesday, Lt. Colonel Jim Gentry. Gentry believed his terminal cancer was directly related to his service in Iraq and even after death the 52-year-old Indiana National Guard commander is continuing a fight for his troops through a lawsuit.

December 2nd, 2009 | Posted in Qarmat Ali News,Television & Radio,Television Coverage,WHAS-ABC 11 | Read More »

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