Excerpt from: Lawyers.com (click for full article)
Former National Guard soldiers who are lining up to sue KBR, a former subsidiary of Halliburton, for exposing them to toxins during the early days of the Iraq War got a big boost on Nov. 2 when a Portland, Ore. jury awarded 12 veterans of the Oregon Army National Guard a total of over $85 million.
The jury agreed with the plaintiffs that U.S. government contractor KBR negligently exposed them to hexavalent chromium – a known carcinogen in the anticorrosion chemical used by the Iraqis during the process of extracting oil – during the “Restore Iraqi Oil” mission at Qarmat Ali in 1993.
That mission was designed to avoid a repeat of the burning oil fields of the first Gulf War, according to a local news report. U.S. and British soldiers were hired to guard a water treatment plant there.
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