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by leon on December 5, 2008

The KBR scandals just don't stop.
One year after the company was implicated in the rape of KBR employee employee Jamie Leigh Jones , it's been hit with a new lawsuit from another former employee. This one accuses KBR, among other things, of serving US soldiers with ice that still had traces of body fluids and putrefied remains. The lawsuit from Joshua Eller, who worked as a civilian computer-aided drafting technician with the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing, accuses KBR and its former parent Halliburton of exposing people to unsafe water, food and hazardous fumes from a burn pit. More on this from Army Times.
This stuff is stomach churning. "Eller filed his claim after he deployed in February 2006 for 10 months. The lawsuit claims he developed skin lesions that subsequently spread, filled with fluid and burst. He said they went away, then reappeared, followed by blisters on his feet that made it painful for him to walk. He said they healed, but continue to return every three to four months.
"Then, Eller said he experienced vomiting, cramping and diarrhea, and continues to suffer severe abdominal pain.
'Plaintiff witnessed the open air burn pit in operation at Balad Air Force Base,' the lawsuit states. 'On one occasion, he witnessed a wild dog running around base with a human arm in its mouth. The human arm had been dumped on the open air burn pit by KBR.'
"Eller also accused KBR of serving spoiled, expired and rotten food to the troops, as well as dishes that may have been contaminated with shrapnel.
" ' Defendants knowingly and intentionally supplied and served food that was well past its expiration date, in some cases over a year past its expiration date,' the lawsuit states. 'Even when it was called to the attention of the KBR food service managers that the food was expired, KBR still served the food to U.S. forces.'
"The food included chicken, beef, fish, eggs and dairy products, which caused cases of salmonella poisoning, according to the lawsuit."
Add to that the allegations that the company has been using slave labor in Iraq, confining 1000 Asian workers in windowless warehouses.
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