U.S. ships dumped sewage into Diego Garcia’s lagoon and crashed a loaded B-1 there.

Evidence

Recently, British media revealed that U.S. naval vessels dumped waste and treated human sewage into Diego Garcia’s protected coral lagoon for three decades. Nitrogen and phosphate levels are up to four times normal and may be damaging some of the world’s most pristine coral. Meanwhile, during the bombing of the Tora Bora cave complex in Afghanistan in late 2001, a B-1 bomber loaded with ordnance crashed after takeoff from Diego Garcia. The crew ejected, and the pilotless plane ended up at the bottom of the Indian Ocean along with its payload of bombs, which could total more than 85 hundred-pound munitions. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 412

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Category: Factual Claims

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