Monday, March 10, 2008

SPB News for Monday.



AP Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water A vast array of pharmaceuticals - including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones - have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.

Senate Committee Seeks Audit of Iraq Oil Money Two senior members of the Senate Armed Services Committee have requested a full accounting of how Iraq is spending its soaring oil revenue. Since the invasion in 2003, the United States has invested close to $50 billion in Bush's corpora-terrorists. A letter from the Armed Services Committee says, "we believe that it has been overwhelmingly U.S. taxpayer money that has funded Iraq reconstruction [sic] over the last five years, despite Iraq earning billions of dollars in oil revenue over that time period that have ended up in non-Iraqi banks."



Contaminated water may have affected U.S. troops An internal Pentagon report obtained by The Associated Press concludes dozens of U.S. troops in Iraq have become sick at bases using "unmonitored and potentially unsafe" water. The Pentagon's inspector general found water quality problems between 2004 and 2006 at two locations run by the U.S. military and three sites run by contractor KBR.

Mass grave containing 100 bodies found in Iraq Iraqi security forces found a mass grave containing about 100 bodies in the volatile Diyala province, the U.S. military said on Saturday.



US fails a fourth time to hit al-Qa'ida suspect in Somalia A US missile strike in Somalia, aimed at a man described by the Pentagon as a "known al-Qa'ida terrorist",succeeded only in hurting six civilians and killing three cows and a calf, the IoS has learned. At least one Tomahawk missile was believed to have been fired from a US submarine off the Somali coast on Monday.

1 comment:

airJackie said...

I guess this is what is ment by we support our troops by letting KBR give them dirty water. I wonder what we will find out next?