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BBC News – UK troops join former US personnel in ‘toxic’ lawsuit

UK troops join former US Guards in ‘toxic’ exposure lawsuit against KBR By Rajini Vaidyanathan Reporter, BBC Radio 4’s PM Seven former British soldiers are suing an American defence firm, accusing it of exposing them to dangerous levels of toxic chemicals in Iraq. The men were providing security at a water plant near Basra where […]

June 10th, 2010 | Posted in BBC News,International News,Qarmat Ali News | Read More »

Suit against KBR by Oregon National Guard goes forward in Portland

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 »

Oregon Guard chemical exposure suit against KBR will move forward

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 […]

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

Oregon Guard soldiers lawsuit again war contractor KBR can go forward

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 […]

April 13th, 2010 | Posted in Oregon Live,Qarmat Ali News | Read More »

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

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

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

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

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 »

Judge dismisses Indiana soldiers’ Iraq suit

By Jon Murray Indystar.com A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit accusing a large defense contractor of concealing the risks faced by nearly 140 Indiana National Guard soldiers potentially exposed to a cancer-causing agent in Iraq. The ruling did not address any of the claims in the lawsuit, which could still be pursued elsewhere by […]

February 25th, 2010 | Posted in Indianapolis Star,Qarmat Ali News | Read More »

Sen. Ron Wyden says Veterans exposed to hexavalent chromium deserve lifelong health care and Purple Hearts

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.

February 19th, 2010 | Posted in Oregon Live,Proposed Legislation,Qarmat Ali News | Read More »

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