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  bubba21 month ago

  Sen. Robert Casey, D-Penn., expressed frustration that the latest electrocution, which caused the death of Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth on Jan. 2, 2008, occurred four years after an Army Corps of Engineers report warning that these electrical hazards on bases were a "killer of soldiers."

  "That's October 2004 and we are sitting here in 2008 and we are still talking about this," Casey said, describing his disgust that Maseth, a Special Forces soldier, lost his life while taking a shower in his barracks in Baghdad. "That's an abomination."

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    bubba21 month ago

    Maseth's mother, Cheryl Harris, testified at the Senate Democratic Policy Committee hearing, telling lawmakers that she has learned that KBR found the electrical hazard during an inspection of her son's barracks 11 months before his death.

    Harris became upset, her voice quivering several times during her description of how her son "lay in electrified water until he was discovered by a fellow soldier who kicked the door down. There, lying on the ground, was my son's body, burnt and smoldering," she said. "One of the soldiers who attempted to rescue Ryan was himself severely shocked because the electrical current was still running through the water and pipes in Ryan's bathroom."

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  bubba21 month ago

  Halliburton and KBR are guilty of, at the LEAST, negligent homicide.

  Mark my words - at least while the Bush administration is still in power, NOTHING will be done to hold Halliburton or KBR accountable for those deaths.

  I hope the families of those electrocuted soldiers sue the HELL out of Halliburton and KBR.

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  hamy1 month ago

  So Halliburton is now killing our soldiers. How can they be allowed to do this? Why isn't anyone reporting this? Why isn't this murderous company being held accountable for it's actions? How can anyone justify continuing to give them these government contracts?

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