[CPEO-MEF] Risk for EOD Workers in Iraq

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

In response to my posting Sunday about American Explosive Ordnance
Disposal (EOD) teams in Iraq, I've been reminded by the Army Corps of
Engineers that EOD workers are finding the Iraqi environment even more
hazardous than the domestic range clearance projects they left behind.
In recent weeks, two EOD contractors have been killed, and one seriously
wounded, in Iraq.

For more information about both the casualties and the Captured Enemy
Ammunition mission, see

http://www.hnd.usace.army.mil/pao/IraqMediaKit03.asp


Lenny

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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