Iraq News

Halliburton and KBR major private contractors in Iraq have been sued for exposing thousands of workers to unhealthy and contaminated conditions at an Iraqi military base. The lawsuit was filed on November 6 in a Texas court by Joshua Eller, a civilian employee who worked for the US Air Force in 2006 at the Balad air force base northeast of Baghdad. The lawsuit, a copy of which was obtained by the AFP, includes a long list of charges saying that KBR have \"knowingly and intentionally supplied to US Forces and other individuals food that was expired, spoiled, rotten and that they \"shipped ice served to US forces in trucks that had been used to carry human remains and that still had traces of body fluids and putrefied remains.\" It is to be noted that KBR was part of Halliburton Company when the latter was led by Vice President Dick Cheney.