Munitions Response in Iraq

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cape Contractors Share Risks, Rewards in Iraq

By Amanda Lehmert
Cape Cod Times
April 2, 2004

_From his base of operations just outside the Sunni Triangle, Nicholas
Iaiennaro told his wife, Gretchen, he has seen smoke rising above
Fallujah, Iraq.

Iaiennaro, a father of three from Hyannis, works with the Army Corps of
Engineers on a mission to rid the country of leftover ordnance - a
mission fueled by about 2,000 civilian contractors.

The torching and mutilating of the bodies of four contractors in
Fallujah Wednesday hit home for this Cape family and at the
Massachusetts Military Reservation, where at least three contracting
groups currently have employees overseas or will send them there soon.

An unknown number of American civilians have been contracted by the U.S.
government to rebuild and restore Iraq - and a handful have died or been
injured doing their jobs.

Iaiennaro, a Army Corps employee who works with the Groundwater Study
Program at Camp Edwards, joined a team of contractors and military
personnel from Huntsville, Ala., who are de-mining areas and blowing up
unexploded munitions.

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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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