KBR Under Fire--Again (and Again)

[annabanana]

http://www.propublica.org/article/kbr-under-fire-again-and-again-1204

It’s been a rough couple of days for KBR, the former Halliburton subsidiary and largest contractor in Iraq.

Yesterday, McClatchy reported that one of its subcontractors has been holding a thousand foreign workers in windowless warehouses in Iraq for as long as three months. The men have no jobs, no money, and twelve toilets among them. (The men had been recruited for a contract that apparently fell through.) The Kuwaiti company also reportedly confiscated their passports, a violation of the U.S. military’s rules for contractors.

Also yesterday, sixteen members of the Indiana National Guard sued KBR, accusing the company of knowingly exposing them to hexavalent chromium (the cancer-causing chemical made famous by Erin Brockovich) at the Qarmat Ali water treatment facility in Iraq in the months following the 2003 invasion.

It is my fervent wish that they be sued out of existence.

[EFerrari]

1. What that sub contractor did is commonly known as slavery.

That's what modern slavery looks like.

[PearliePoo2]

2. They poison you........then when you want to take a shower...

they fucking electrocute you.
(thinking bad Karma here)

[corpseratemedia]

3. is kbr doing some kind of testing on the troops or something?

knowingly serving them morgue ice, etc? ....??