{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"EXCLUSIVE REPORT: American Military Burn Pits Pose Risk to Future Generations of Afghans (Part 3 of 3)","author_name":"Matthew J. Nasuti (Former U.S. Air Force Captain)","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article9421.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article9421.html'\u003EEXCLUSIVE REPORT: American Military Burn Pits Pose Risk to Future Generations of Afghans (Part 3 of 3)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe American military continues to operate burn pits in Afghanistan eighteen months after the U.S. Congress banned their use.  See the February 1, 2010, article by Lindsay Wise and Lise Olsen of the Houston Chronicle.  They used the burn pit at Camp Taji in Iraq as an example.  It continues to open-burn 120 tons of waste each day.  This provides a glimpse as to the volume of waste that is being illegally burned on American bases every day.  Multiple that times hundreds of bases and posts in (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}