Contractor Killed, Two U.S. Troops Wounded in Iraq

NNN0LHI

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Wed Aug-20-03 07:47 AM
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Contractor Killed, Two U.S. Troops Wounded in Iraq

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030820/ts_nm/iraq_attack_dc&cid=564&ncid=1473

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Guerrillas ambushed U.S. troops in Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s hometown of Tikrit in central Iraq (news - web sites) on Wednesday, killing a contractor and wounding two soldiers, a U.S. military officer said.

Major Bryan Luke did not give the nationality of the contractor. He said assault rifles were fired at a three-vehicle convoy near a market in the center of Tikrit, 110 miles north of Baghdad.

Luke had initially said rocket-propelled grenades had also been fired, but later said this was not correct.

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alcuno

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Wed Aug-20-03 07:51 AM
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1. We must be guarding contractors.................

Can you imagine the number of people in Iraq for whom the US is providing security? I wonder how many bodyguards each member of the Iraqi Governing Council (aka US controlled council) has?

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Jacobin

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Wed Aug-20-03 07:55 AM
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3. Word should soon get out to the contractors

that getting transferred to Iraq to work on infrastructure is like being assigned to the Front.
Wonder what kind of hazard pay they are getting.
Wonder how their employers are dealing with their employees life insurance, since there are exclusions for war in all life insurance policies.

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dArKeR

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Wed Aug-20-03 07:56 AM
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4. About as many and the same cost as in Afghanistan.

http://darkerxdarker.tripod.com/index.html

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theHandpuppet

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Wed Aug-20-03 10:49 AM
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10. Not to be disrespectful of the dead...

... but you have to wonder why this contractor merited a military escort. Was he working to restore electicity, water, vital services et al and if so, why not just say so?

Why are these contractors who are reported killed always cloaked in such anonymity?

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Jacobin

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Wed Aug-20-03 07:53 AM
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2. Average of 25 attacks a day

Donald QuagmiresRus Rumsfeld.....what will he be saying at this time next year? "Are there more 'dead-enders' than we expected? You bet.

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lebkuchen

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Wed Aug-20-03 08:37 AM
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5. Meanwhile, * remains "confident" that things are going just fine

Or has he changed that tune, too?

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Jacobin

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Wed Aug-20-03 08:44 AM
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6. Fortunately for Smirk he is not and never has been conntected to

reality.

A big plus for ideologues. They don't have to deal with facts and issues, just justify their fantasies.

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Mari333

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Wed Aug-20-03 10:05 AM
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8. *Bush is on the Job!

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Barrett808

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Wed Aug-20-03 12:01 PM
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12. Excellent. Can you post a link to this cartoon? n/t

n/t

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Sagan

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Wed Aug-20-03 09:06 AM
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7. "contractor" means anything these days..

The guy could have been one of Bushco's private soldiers or some Wackenhut goose-stepping goon. Or it could have been some poor electrical engineer out looking at the power lines. Who knows?

With the veil of censorship and lies the misAdministration has drawn around Iraq, we'll probably never know the truth about yet another incident.

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Fridays Child

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Wed Aug-20-03 10:16 AM
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9. Bremer: "This kind of attack is the reason why US soldiers are here...

...and why they'll stay."

Do the mind-numbing lies ever stop with these people?

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LeftistGorilla

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Wed Aug-20-03 11:03 AM
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11. Israelis...

should think twice about doing business in Iraq...

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