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    US Afghan War Veterans Suffer ‘Devastating Health Conditions’ Due to Toxins, Radiation at Base

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    Almost two decades of war in Afghanistan have taken their toll on US servicemen, not only via battles with terrorists, but also due to the 's apparent negligence of adverse environmental conditions at one or more bases and a general lack of information regarding related hazards.

    The House Subcommittee on National Security has ruled to de-classify a significant array of documents from the Department of Defence that suggest that American troops, stationed at Camp Stronghold Freedom at the Karshi-Khanabad (K2) in between 2001 and 2005, were constantly exposed to several types of hazardous toxins and even radiation, and have since been suffering health issues likely connected to the conditions at the base.

    Democratic chairman of the subcommittee Stephen Lynch and his fellow committee members have indicated that the poisonous conditions at the K2 base could have resulted in numerous medical issues for some of the 10,100 veterans who fought in the Afghanistan war and were stationed at Camp Stronghold Freedom. The lawmakers noted that so far these soldiers, who have showed “cancer rates five times higher than” their fellow servicemen, were denied the disability and health-care benefits they deserved and called on the rest of Congress to act in order to fix the situation.

    Republican member of the subcommittee Mark Green, in turn, noted that there has been “a mounting body of evidence” that the…

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