American Samizdat

Thursday, September 09, 2010. *
As part of one of the widest-ranging U.S. war-crime cases to emerge from the conflict in Afghanistan, charging documents released Wednesday allege soldiers took finger bones and other body parts cut from Afghan corpses. The documents provide new public details of the cases against a dozen soldiers who served a year in southern Afghanistan with a Western Washington-based Stryker infantry brigade.


Meanwhile, yawn...

Obama wins the right to invoke "State Secrets" to protect Bush crimes By Glenn Greenwald

Addendum:

Bushco Contractor Quietly Granted Legal Immunity While Securing Oil Supplies In Iraq

Veterans Exposed to Carcinogen Shed Light on Secret Iraq Contracting Deal

Friday 10 September 2010

by: Mike Ludwig, t r u t h o u t | Report

A lawsuit filed by Iraq war veterans against a former Halliburton subsidiary over exposure to toxic chemicals is not the first of its kind, but it has brought new insight into the Iraq war by revealing that a contractor with close ties to the Bush administration was quietly granted legal immunity while securing oil supplies in Iraq.

Former Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) failed to notify US National Guardsmen that were exposed to a highly toxic and cancer-causing chemical while providing security for the firm early in the Iraq war. The guardsmen got sick, and thanks to a classified agreement, US taxpayers could pay the legal bills for the latest in a string of lawsuits against the massive military contractor.


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