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KBR, Halliburton sued over war-zone’s toxic burn pits 2
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Confronted with the need to dispose of enormous quantities of war-related trash, private contractors working for the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan came up with a simple solution: They burned the trash in big, open pits. Now soldiers, contractors, and civilians have filed a series of class-action lawsuits against the companies behind the burning, saying the smoke from the pits contained toxic chemicals that have left them with severe respiratory problems, chronic infections, and even cancer.
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