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Visit Oregon Live for Full Stories By Mike Francis, The Oregonian Lawyers for Oregon National Guard soldiers suing defense contractor KBR Inc. said this week the Houston-based company deliberately concealed a document proving it knew before the invasion of Iraq of the presence of a deadly carcinogen at a water treatment plant in the southern [...]
Documents now uncovered in the lawsuit by several soldiers against Kellog, Brown and Root (KBR) show that KBR managers were aware of alarming blood and urine test results of site personnel subject to “significant exposure” to sodium dichromate. These documents are in direct contradiction to KBR’s long-held position there was no medical evidence of harm [...]
ERIN GOLDEN • The Associated Press Aaron St. Clair was nearly home from Iraq when he got the bad news. The Redmond soldier was at Fort Lewis, Wash., with other Oregon National Guard troops, filling out paperwork and marking the last few days of a long deployment when a lieutenant pulled him aside. Months earlier, he [...]
Published: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 8:23 PM Updated: Friday, July 23, 2010, 7:52 AM Julie Sullivan, The Oregonian The Department of Veterans Affairs is launching a Qarmat Ali registry to aggressively track and treat veterans exposed to a cancer-causing chemical in Iraq in 2003. The national surveillance program will register hundreds of National Guard [...]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Larry Roberta is one of 21 Oregon Army National Guard soldiers who have filed a lawsuit against the military contractor Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR). The lawsuit concerns the soldiers' exposure in Iraq to hexavalent chromium, a chemical referred to by some as "Iraq's Agent Orange". The veterans [...]
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 [...]
By Julie Sullivan, The Oregonian May 20, 2010, 6:31PM Magistrate Judge Paul Papak will hear arguments July 12 on whether an Oregon Army National Guard veterans’ case against military contractor Kellogg, Brown and Root should go forward in U. S. District Court in Oregon. On Thursday, Papak also granted in part and denied in part [...]
By Julie Sullivan, The Oregonian April 12, 2010, 5:57PM An Oregon Army National Guard soldiers’ lawsuit against war contractor Kellogg, Brown & Root over exposure to a cancer-causing chemical will go forward, a federal judge ruled Friday in Portland. U.S. District Judge Magistrate Paul Papak denied KBR’s motion to dismiss the case, saying the court [...]
Veterans exposed to cancer-causing hexavalent chromium in Iraq — including nearly 300 Oregon soldiers — should be treated as if they’d hit a roadside bomb and receive lifelong medical care and Purple Hearts, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden said Thursday.
