2020 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 17:41:39 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] VETERANS, GLOBAL: "Illness tied to Afghan war a legacy of 9/11"
 
Illness tied to Afghan war a legacy of 9/11

By Chris Sokoloski|
Coastal Observer (SC)
September 10, 2020


Immediately after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the United States government set up a base in Uzbekistan near the border with Afghanistan  to launch strikes against the Taliban and al Qaeda.

Nineteen years later, 75 percent of the more than 10,000 servicemen and women who served at the Karshi-Khanabad base have died or been sickened by illnesses directly linked to their time there.

John Pilot of Litchfield is one of the survivors of K2, which is the  nickname of Karshi-Khanabad.


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For the entire article, see
https://coastalobserver.com/illness-tied-to-afghan-war-a-legacy-of-9-11/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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