Two Americans, Translator Killed in Iraq

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen posing as police killed two American civilians and their Iraqi translator — all employees of the U.S.-led coalition — at a makeshift checkpoint south of Baghdad, the coalition said Wednesday. In another southern area, four Iraqi policemen died in a shootout with a local militia.

The deaths at the checkpoint came when the gunmen stopped the car Tuesday night outside Hillah, 35 miles south of Baghdad, Polish Col. Robert Strzelecki said. The attackers shot dead the passengers and took the vehicle, he said.

Polish troops later intercepted the car, arrested five Iraqis in it and found the bodies inside, said Strzelecki, speaking from the Camp Babylon headquarters of the Polish-led multinational force in Iraq (news - web sites). In Baghdad, a spokesman for the coalition that governs Iraq confirmed the deaths.

Authorities did not immediately release the identities of those killed.

Halliburton? Dyncorp? The American Baptist Association?

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<Authorities did not immediately release the victims' identities. The Polish News Agency reported that one of those killed worked for the coalition press office. >