Military Contractor KBR Sued over Dogs With Human Arms in Their Mouths

Military contracting behemoth Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) has been in the news previously for allegations of widespread sexual harassment. Here they are again, committing more horrors.

A lawsuit against the company recently filed in Houston federal court accuses its workers of exposing military and non-military personnel in Iraq to contaminated food, contaminated water, and improperly incinerated human remains. Yeah, that's right. Human remains. Joshua Eller, the principal plaintiff, says he witnessed a wild dog running around base one day carrying a human arm in its mouth.

KBR Sued Again, Featuring Dogs Running Around With Human Arms In Their Mouths (Houston Press, thanks Martha Clayton)

• [Anonymous]

  Pix or it didn’t happen.

• [Anonymous]

  Most likely Iraqi remains….I know incinerators were being installed at the base in Balad just as I left (used to work for KBR) and medical waste and remains were targeted to be incinerated. Normal trash was to be incinerated as well to minimize using the burn pit.

  The dog part of the story sounds dubious, doubtful anyone would be so careless with remains such as that and stray dogs were killed as they represented a vector (leishmaniasis) threat.

• [El_Cid]

  Remember, it was all those skeptical liberals who hated the Troops. If you shut up and let Dick Cheney give no-bid contracts to his friends and former business partners, you Loved America, and The Surge, which is even more important than America.

• [Anonymous]

  “and improperly incinerated human remains.”

  Exactly whose remains are they being paid to incinerate?

• [Anonymous]

  When people talk about bringing the over 140,000 American troops stationed in Iraq home, I wonder if they realize that there’s actually more defense contractors than troops in Iraq right now.

• [Takuan]

  just a little Yojimbo.

• [ecobore]

  Sounds ‘armless enough to me!

• [eustace]

  They go where they please, under orders or against them, under arms, on our tab. They are the living embodiment of oppression. Bad plumber? Incompetent mechanic? What a sheltered existence you must have had.

• [Takuan]

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7765695.stm

• [acrocker]

  @3

  no. just no. [I laughed though]

• [kityglitr]

  Heh. “Widespread allegations of sexual harrassment” is putting it mildly, to say the least. How about “violent rape that was so brutal the victim’s breast implant was ruptured”?

• [grimc]

  just a little Yojimbo.

  Just a little too Yojimbo. But at the same time, I don’t expect much justice or comeuppance at the end of this flick, so it’s also not Yojimbo enough.

• [Daemon]

  Who could ever have guessed that killers-for-hire would behave inappropriately?

• [Stefan Jones]

  Tsk, tsk, tsk Xeni! The dog was a licensed sub-sub-subcontractor putting himself in harms way for the war effort. Shaaaaame!

• [Marcel]

  Yes, they DO hate you because of your freedom.

• [ErikO23]

  @2

  i too am quit skeptical and initially had the exact same reaction.

  i now think though, that the human remains are probably the result of amputation.

• [Takuan]

  they ever throw anybody in jail for all those soldiers killed by shower electrocution?

• [Agent 86]

  can I hate our freedoms because of them?

• [Nora]

  http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=362

• [Cicada]

  This may sound cynical, but how is this different than anyone else trying to make a buck by doing a half-assed job? They’re larger in scope than, say, a bad plumber or incompetent mechanic is all.

• [Takuan]

  wrong thread Nora, that should have been in the toilet train your cat thread. Nicely lyrical though.

• [LB]

  Wait, I just saw these guys mentioned on CNN this morning for something completely different!

  Slave labor.

  http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/12/kbr-partner-con.html

• [Takuan]

  KBR kills people