Sources: Contractor for military committed serious violations

[Silverbird]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A contractor providing services to the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan has committed serious violations of its contract, mainly byconducting inadequate inspections of electrical wiring and grounding at American bases, according to Pentagon sources.

The Pentagon findings on Houston, Texas-based KBR stem from the widely publicized death of Sgt. Ryan Maseth, a highly decorated 24-year-old Green Beret from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Maseth was electrocuted while taking a shower at his base in Baghdad.

His January 2 death was just one of many deaths now believed to be linked to shoddy electrical work done at U.S. bases, managed by U.S. contractors, according to Pentagon sources.....
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/24/soldiers.electrocuted/index.html
[KBR - Kellogg, Brown and Root. Former subsidary of Halliburton]

[nnuut]

Someone needs to go to JAIL for this one!! Who are the Govt inspectors that verify these contractor's work? They need to go along with them to the Calaboose!:mad: 5133

[Silverbird]

That's been one of the MAJOR problems with contracting - not enough oversight written into the contract, so sometimes there aren't any inspectors. BTW KBR has a pretty awful reputation in the DC area among construction companies (even before Haliburton bought them), so I was pretty horrified to see them get the contract. They are so bad Haliburton dumped them in mid 2007. That'll tell you something. Personally I wouldn't trust them with a light bulb.

I just want our troops to know that their electical grid may be...dangerous...due to these shysters.

[Silverbird]

More unsteller performances by KBR:

CNN
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Would-be migrant workers, who say they have been stranded in a compound at Baghdad's airport for months, said Iraqi security authorities using tear gas and smoke grenades forcibly removed scores of men from the derelict warehouse Friday.

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The recruiters told the men -- from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Uganda -- that jobs were waiting for them with American defense contractor KBR, through a Kuwaiti company called Najlaa Catering Services. The recruiting agents charged them between $3,000 and $5,000 to make the trip to Iraq (http://topics.cnn.com/topics/iraq); many sold their farms or other valuables to raise the money......
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/05/iraq.forgotten.workers/