How do U.S. civilians acting as non-military contractors and subcontracts die in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Corporate negligence and greed plus U.S. government apathy have contributed to the many serious injuries and wrongful deaths for both military and non-military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. For instance, there’s KBR, a former subsidiary of Halliburton. With corporate offices in Houston, KBR is the largest non-union engineering and construction company in the United States. As of 2007, KBR was the largest employer of Americans, with nearly 14,000 U.S. workers in Iraq. KBR non-military contract workers have died, disappeared, or became seriously injured from being repeatedly sent into active combat zones without firearms. The promise to keep workers safe was violated.
