{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"U.S. Abandons Toxic Burn Pits as it Withdraws from Iraq and Afghanistan ","author_name":"Matthew J. Nasuti (Former U.S. Air Force Captain)","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article90870.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article90870.html'\u003EU.S. Abandons Toxic Burn Pits as it Withdraws from Iraq and Afghanistan \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EU.S. service members and their Iraqi and Afghan allies have a common enemy.  It is not Iran, the Taliban or al-Qaeda, but the Pentagon which operated hundreds of toxic burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan.  As the U.S. completes its withdrawal from Iraq and begins to draw down in Afghanistan, the American military, pursuant to its \u201cpollute and run\u201d policy, is abandoning millions of kilograms of toxic and potentially radioactive waste.  Everything is being buried and covered over, just as it did (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}