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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 [...]
By Associated Press, Updated: Wednesday, April 4, 11:36 AM PORTLAND, Ore. — A military contractor knew an Iraqi water treatment plant’s lax environmental standards let a toxic chemical contaminate the area, but never disclosed it to Oregon National Guard soldiers who were sickened, the soldiers said in a complaint filed Wednesday. The complaint in U.S. District Court [...]
Iraq veteran is cancer ‘timebomb’ Published by Chad.co.uk Published on Thursday 21 July 2011 14:34 AN Iraq War veteran from Skegby has spoken of his fear he may develop cancer as a result of the deadly chemicals he was exposed to while serving in Basra. Cpl Jon Caunt (35) undertook five tours of Iraq [...]
A retired sergeant of the Royal Air Force has joined members of the West Virginia National Guard in a lawsuit alleging that they were exposed to a toxic chemical by a government contractor in Iraq in 2003, becoming the first British veteran to sue over the exposure.
NBC Nightly News – Guardsmen suing KBR for chemical exposure… NBC News investigation tonight that takes us back to Iraq in 2003, after the combat phase of the war was over… more
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.
Toxic Tour of Duty: Part 1 & 2 – (WHAS11)–Tell City, Indiana is the small Perry County seat. It’s where a giant We Support the Troops banner hangs on the county courthouse and many a man here has served in the military.
Senator Evan Bayh made the following statement today at a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing about S. 1779, The Health Care for Veterans Exposed to Chemical Hazards Act of 2009:
Halliburton’s KBR subsidiary, and it’s role in the exposure of hundreds of American and British soldiers protecting KBR’s Qarmat Ali project in southern Iraq in 2003 to sodium dichromate (better known as hexavalent chromium in the “Erin Brockavich” movie), has been the subject of Senate DPC hearings and coverage on ABC, CBS, NBC, Democracy Now, and in The Houston Chronicle, The Oregonian, and other newspapers across the country.
