4 contractors working for Army Corps killed in Iraq

Barrett808

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Fri Jun-09-06 09:54 AM
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4 contractors working for Army Corps killed in Iraq

Edited on Fri Jun-09-06 09:55 AM by Barrett808

4 contractors working for Army Corps killed in Iraq
Death toll of those with Huntsville center hits 9
Friday, June 09, 2006
From staff reports
Huntsville Times

Four contractors working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering and Support Center in Huntsville died Thursday in Iraq when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb.

The names of the contractors and their hometowns were not immediately released because their families haven't been notified, according to a Corps of Engineers news release.

Previously, five contractors were killed in Iraq while working for the Corps of Engineers center in Huntsville; none were from the Huntsville area. Of those, two died in early May, one died in November and two others died in October.

The Corps of Engineers' operation in Huntsville is the Army's center of expertise in ordnance and explosives, and hires contractors from all over the world.

The Huntsville center operates the Coalition Munitions Clearing Program that is responsible for receiving, transporting, segregating and destroying captured or any other munitions posing a danger in Iraq, according to a Corps of Engineers news release.

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http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1149844682319270.xml&coll=1

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shain from kane

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Fri Jun-09-06 10:00 AM
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1. Phase 3 has started.

Phase 1 ended at Mission Accomplished.
Phase 2 ended at the death of Al-Zarquawi.

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Barrett808

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Fri Jun-09-06 10:07 AM
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2. Interesting thought -- any ideas on what Phase 3 entails? n/t

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shain from kane

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Fri Jun-09-06 10:12 AM
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4. I could tell you, but then I would have to kill you. n/t

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rodeodance

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Fri Jun-09-06 10:36 AM
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5. and will phase III ante up to phase II?

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shain from kane

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Fri Jun-09-06 10:56 AM
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6. Ok, here is the plan. Appearance of indiscriminate killing., so we

Edited on Fri Jun-09-06 11:15 AM by shain from kane

have to maintain a military or law enforcement prescence.

Phase 1 - military
Phase 2 - insurgents

There still has to be a major fight over the oil fields and apparatus to produce and deliver the oil.

Edit Here is a copy of a reference from a posting from a new topic thread about 30 minutes after I made my original comments.

>>>Bush: U.S. uncertain when Iraqis can control security
President discusses war with Danish ally

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/09/bush.denmark.ap/...

CAMP DAVID, Maryland (AP) -- President Bush said Friday that it's not clear that Iraqi forces will be able to take control of their country's security within 18 months as the new leader there has said.

Making that determination depends on an assessment of the new government in Baghdad, which just on Thursday installed a new defense minister and other top national security posts, Bush said.

"I think we'll get a realistic appraisal about the capacity for standing up Iraqi troops as this new government begins to function," the president said, appearing here with Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, a staunch U.S. ally in Iraq. "Now they've got a defense minister which will give us time to assess their command-and-control."

The meeting came a day after the disclosure that terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been killed in a bombing attack in Iraq. "I'm thrilled that Zarqawi was brought to justice, and I am so proud of our troops and intelligence officers who brought him to justice," Bush said. "This man had a lot of blood on his hands."<<<

I'm one of those Nostrodamus types.

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madrchsod

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Fri Jun-09-06 10:11 AM
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3. are we supposed to care?

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Halliburton

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Fri Jun-09-06 11:05 AM
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7. WHAT?!? I thought we captured Zarqawi

How are these guys operating without their supreme leader?

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seemslikeadream

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Fri Jun-09-06 11:14 AM
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8. DOGS OF WAR

http://www.redcross.int/EN/mag/magazine2004_3/26-27.html

The return of the mercenary

The Corps of Engineers' operation in Huntsville is the Army's center of expertise in ordnance and explosives, and hires contractors from all over the world.

working for blood money

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