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http://blackwatersecurity.com/dospsd.html



Two U.S. Contractors Killed in Iraq

Two American security contractors were killed and a third wounded in a roadside bomb attack south of the Iraqi capital, the U.S. Embassy said Sunday. The three were working for Blackwater Security, a North Carolina-based contracting firm that provides security for U.S. State Department officials in Iraq.

They were attacked on the main road to Hillah, south of Baghdad, U.S. Embassy spokesman Bob Callahan said.

Two Iraqis were killed and five injured when a roadside bomb missed a U.S. convoy in al-Obeidi in southeastern Baghdad on Sunday, said Dr. Ali Karim of Kindi hospital, where the casualties were brought.

The Blackwater employees killed Saturday were in the last vehicle in a four-vehicle convoy and were traveling to Hillah from Baghdad, Callahan said. A foreign security official said they were in a black Chevrolet Suburban. The road south traverses an area known as the "Triangle of Death" because of the frequency of insurgent attacks.

"I can confirm that two American employees of Blackwater Security were killed early yesterday afternoon on the road to Hillah when an IED exploded next to their vehicle, Callahan said Sunday.

An IED is a military acronym for an improvised explosive device, or homemade bomb.

Officials at Blackwater's headquarters in Moyock, North Carolina, could not be reached for comment.

In March 2004, four Blackwater employees were killed in the turbulent city of Fallujah, and two of the corpses were hung from a bridge, triggering a bloody three-week siege of the restive Sunni Muslim city west of Baghdad soon afterward.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/03/13/international/i052001S71.DTL

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1. Oh good, job openings. n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. AKA Mercenaries AKA Scum of the earth.

Hired guns.

[signmike]

3. Safer and better pay selling crack on the corner in L.A.

on the other hand I could be standing next to a rich, important U.S. official with a loaded weapon in my hands. :evilgrin:

[leetrisck]

4. Military veterans

in most cases.

[LaPera]

5. The price people are willing to pay to steal oil. The word "Goons"

is far too mild for these killer thugs. To have to rely on these "contractors" everywhere you go, greed obviously has no boundaries.

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