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Article: SEN. CASEY TROUBLED TO LEARN MORE INDIVIDUALS ELECTROCUTED IN IRAQ
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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The office of Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., has issued the following news release:
U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) today released the following statement after learning from General David Petraeus that 13 individuals, not 12 as originally thought, have been electrocuted in Iraq since September 2003. Senator Casey also has learned that the Pentagon has ordered KBR to conduct theater-wide inspections of all maintained facilities to ensure that similar problems do not appear elsewhere.
"I am deeply troubled to learn that now thirteen Americans have lost their lives in this manner. One death by electrocution is too many; the Department of Defense has an obligation to ensure that no future electrocutions ...