KBR Killing Soldiers, In the Shower

(The best part of this story is: records show that KBR found the problem several months before Staff Sgt. Maseth died, but because they didn’t have fixing the problem in their “cost-plus” contract, they didn’t. Fixing the ground on the system, might have taken an hour or so… then, believe it or not, to cover for the contractor, or KBR,, the Army tried to tell his mother he had gone into the shower “with a corded appliance” and that is what killed him. He was still being electrocuted when his fellow soldiers tried to save him. One of them was severely electrocuted in the process. It’s a good thing KBR is so close to Vice President Cheney, or they might have lost a contract or two because of this.)

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (CNN) – A highly decorated Green Beret, Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth died a painful death in Iraq this year. He died not on the battlefield. He died in what should have been one of the safest spots in Iraq: on a U.S. base, in his bathroom.

The water pump was not properly grounded, and when he turned on the shower, a jolt of electricity shot through his body and electrocuted him January 2.

Iraq’s main Sunni bloc suspends government talks

(Weren’t we just arming the Sunni’s during the Anbar Awakening to fight al Qaeda? The same Sunni’s who had been planting IEDs just months before that killed and maimed U.S. soldiers? Didn’t we give them weapons and cash to help “clean up” the Anbar Province (translation: they “cleansed” the Shi’ite population from the area sending them straight into the waiting arms of Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army in Sadr City, swelling the Mahdi Army ranks)? And now, they are pulling out of the Shi’ite-led puppet government Cheney and his oil tycoons created?)

from Wire Dispatch, here.

BAGHDAD, May 28 (Reuters) – Iraq’s main Sunni Arab political bloc said on Wednesday it had suspended talks to rejoin the Shi’ite-led government after a disagreement with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki over a cabinet post.

What “Our Interests in the Region” Did This Week: They Burned Bibles

(That’s right. According to this CNN story, they piled up a bunch of “Messianic propaganda” (ie. Bibles) for no apparent reason, and then when thier backs were turned, 3 “teenagers” lit ‘em up. Those darn teenager pyromaniacs. I wonder how John Hagee will spin this story to his congragation. I wonder if the president of Iran made them do it.)

JERUSALEM (CNN) — Police in Israel are investigating the burning of hundreds of New Testaments in a city near Tel Aviv, an incident that has alarmed advocates of religious freedom.

Investigators plan to review photographs and footage showing “a fairly large” number of New Testaments being torched this month in the city of Or-Yehuda, a police spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld, said Wednesday.