Friday, July 18, 2008

Worse than previously disclosed

This has become a common phrase when talking about Bushovik achievements and their accompanying disasters. The latest area of application should be considered any electrical work done for the military by KBR.
Shoddy electrical work by private contractors on United States military bases in Iraq is widespread and dangerous, causing more deaths and injuries from fires and shocks than the Pentagon has acknowledged, according to internal Army documents.

During just one six-month period — August 2006 through January 2007 — at least 283 electrical fires destroyed or damaged American military facilities in Iraq, including the military’s largest dining hall in the country, documents obtained by The New York Times show. Two soldiers died in an electrical fire at their base near Tikrit in 2006, the records note, while another was injured while jumping from a burning guard tower in May 2007.

And while the Pentagon has previously reported that 13 Americans have been electrocuted in Iraq, many more have been injured, some seriously, by shocks, according to the documents. A log compiled earlier this year at one building complex in Baghdad disclosed that soldiers complained of receiving electrical shocks in their living quarters on an almost daily basis.

The Army report said KBR, the Houston-based company that is responsible for providing basic services for American troops in Iraq, including housing, did its own study and found a “systemic problem” with electrical work.
No one expects a war zone to be completely safe, but when you pay for specified work you should get that work as specified, not a "systemic problem". The thieving traitors running KBR and Halliburton (which spun off KBR when they realized what a bunch of fuck-ups KBR was) should all be perp walked as soon as possible.

// posted by montag @ 6:49 AM
Comments:
This problem was known for sometime
and they did nothing and am unclear if anything is being done to correct it now.
# posted by Blogger One Fly : 1:31 PM
 

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