[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, GLOBAL: Joint Base Balad, Iraq burn pit

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Suit claims Halliburton, KBR sickened base

By Kelly Kennedy
Army Times
December 5, 2008

A Georgia man has filed a lawsuit against contractor KBR and its former 
parent company, Halliburton, saying the companies exposed everyone at 
Joint Base Balad in Iraq to unsafe water, food and hazardous fumes from 
the burn pit there.

Joshua Eller, who worked as a civilian computer-aided drafting 
technician with the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing, said military 
personnel, contractors and third-country nationals may have been 
sickened by contamination at the largest U.S. installation in Iraq, home 
to more than 30,000 service members, Defense Department civilians and 
contractors.

"Defendants promised the United States government that they would supply 
safe water for hygienic and recreational uses, safe food supplies and 
properly operate base incinerators to dispose of medical waste safely," 
according to the lawsuit, filed Nov. 26 in U.S. District Court for the 
Southern District of Texas. "Defendants utterly failed to perform their 
promised duties."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/12/military_kbr_lawsuit_121508w/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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