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Soldier's electrocution in KBR shower ruled negligent homicide

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WASHINGTON -- An Army investigation calls the electrocution death of a U.S. soldier in Iraq "negligent homicide" caused by military contractor KBR Inc. and two of its supervisors.

In a document obtained by The Associated Press, an Army criminal investigator says the manner of death for Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, 24, has been changed from accidental to negligent homicide because the contractor failed to ensure that "qualified electricians and plumbers" worked on the barracks where Sgt. Maseth died.

The Green Beret from Shaler died of cardiac arrest on Jan. 2, 2008. He was electrocuted while taking a shower in his barracks in Baghdad.
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16 comments // Soldier's electrocution in KBR shower ruled negligent homicide

  • Cynic2
  • Bren589
  • WhiteNoise
  • Scarabus
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      Scarabus  

    • *Retributive* justice is always tempting. But, speaking of ancient Greeks, Aeschylus's trilogy the Oresteia shows the superiority of *distributive* justice. The laws for exacting fair and appropriate justice exist. What's needed is the popular awareness, the general courage, and the political will to insist those laws be enforced. Ours should be a nation of laws, not men and women, regardless of who the men and women might be or which political party or ideology they might represent.

    • 3 years ago
  • Scarabus
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      Scarabus  

    • Yes, KBR should be fucked, both in legal liability and in war profiteering taxes--but they're not the only ones. Cynical corruption rolls downhill the same as shit. They were given the no-bid contracts on Cheney's orders and with Bush's approval.

    • 3 years ago
  • danweasel
  • Hoax_Productions
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      Hoax_Productions  

    • Oh my God, that is atrocious. For the negligence of a construction company to cause a man to die in such a horrific and unexpected way in a place of comfort. My first assumption is that the faulty construction was a rush job to stretch the dollar.

      After all, the money to re-construct Iraq goes into the pockets of the people that directed the war from Washington. From what I've seen of them, I don't think they could care less about life in the Middle East.

    • 3 years ago
  • banditalamode
  • St_Alia_10191
  • Scarabus
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      Scarabus  

    • This is important. Just as important, though more difficult to deal with, are the deaths and injuries caused by providing military and civilians with knowingly contaminated drinking water. That one will develop gradually, like the agent orange business.

    • 3 years ago
  • CalgarC
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  

    • Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. talks with Elizabeth Burke, one of the attorneys handling the newest lawsuit against the two companies.

      Just one more sample of the gory GOP credo...

      PRIVATIZE THE PROFITS, SOCIALIZE THE COST !

      "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson

    • 3 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  

    • AND ITS BUT THE TIP OF THIS ICEBERG OF CORRUPTION...

      Since the start of the Iraq War, Halliburton and their former subsidiary Kellogg Brown Root have come under fire for receiving billions of dollars in no-bid contracts, and then failing to perform their duties
      adequately. And now they're facing a major lawsuit for some of these shoddy services, most notably for providing tainted supplies of food and water to American troops serving in Iraq.

      Cheney will keep on giving for years to come...

    • 3 years ago
  • ocanada
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      ocanada  

    • This is one of a handfull of deaths caused by this. It was absolutely negligent homocide. They built a dangerous and faulty shower,they were aware of the danger, and on top of everything else were overpaid for thier work with a no bid contract.

      In my home state National Gaurd troops have come back exposed to hexovalent chromium and they have sued because KBR clearly either refused to inform them of the levels after a mandated test or they never conducted the test in clear violation of thier contract. Two solider died many more are desperately ill.

      I can not wait to see justice served.

    • 3 years ago
  • superfinet
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      superfinet  
    • ocanada:

      tisis:ancient Attic Greek for retributive justice/ payback

      they will get theirs, if this is not ignored like so many other atrocities given a politically correct sanitized term: negligent homicide. call it what it is: dumb-ass responsible for killing someone through laziness.

      hang the men responsible .... THAT seems fair, hang them while electrocuting them.... that's payback, and then some.

      plus it's a good show for the people, bring back good ol' foggy London town style justice, draw a crowd and satisfy the masses.

      [yes, I am a bastard]

    • 3 years ago
  • Saladin
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