KBR gives troops drinking water laced with corpse juice

 

"...he saw a wild dog running around the base with a human arm in its mouth that KBR had dumped into the pit." 

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KBR Sued for Giving Soldiers Ice with 'Traces of Body Fluids and Putrefied Remains'
Posted by Jason Rosenbaum, The Seminal at 4:04 PM on December 4, 2008.

The scandals for this war profiteer just keep coming. 

The scandals for KBR just keep coming.  The former Halliburton subsidiary responsible for the sexual assault of Jamie Leigh Jones and the accidental electrocution of a U.S. soldier is now subject of a class-action lawsuit for exposing employees to "unsafe water, food, and hazardous fumes" at the largest U.S. installation in Iraq.

According to the Army Times, Joshua Eller, a former technician with the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing, said that while he was stationed at Balad Air Force Base in 2006, he experienced skin lesions that spread and became worse, along with debilitating blisters on his feet, vomiting, cramping, diarrhea, and severe abdominal pain.

As former KBR Water Purification Specialist Ben Carter described in this clip from Iraq for Sale and in his Congressional testimony, KBR failed to provide adequate water safety, resulting in toxic drinking and bathing water. 

 

This war profiteer also failed to manage a medical incinerator properly, instead disposing medical waste and human remains in an open air burn pit.  Eller claims that at one point, he saw a wild dog running around the base with a human arm in its mouth that KBR had dumped into the pit.  And the grizzly kicker, the suit accuses KBR of using mortuary trucks that "still had traces of body fluids and putrefied remains in them when they were loaded with ice" later served to U.S. troops.

 

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