Ex-commander in Iraq to give deposition in KBR case

[maddezmom]

Source: Houston Chronicle

Despite the Army's efforts to block it, retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who once led U.S. forces in Iraq, is scheduled to be deposed today as an expert for KBR in a lawsuit over a deadly civilian truck convoy attack in Iraq.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy Johnson refused Wednesday to grant the Army's request to prevent Sanchez from giving his expert opinions in the case.

Drivers and family members suing KBR contend the company should have stopped the convoys when it was warned that attacks would increase on April 9, 2004, the first anniversary of the day allies in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq reached Baghdad.

Sanchez, who at $650 an hour is already owed about $91,000 in expert fees, says KBR is not at fault for the six deaths and other injuries.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/6896136.html

[unhappycamper]

1. Maybe they can also ask Ricardo about the Geoffrey Miller visit

to 'Gitmoize' Abu Gharib. As near as I can tell, that's the only thing that went as planned since 2003.