"April 2 — The four American contractors who were killed and mutilated in Iraq were "targets of opportunity" who had the bad luck to drive into a pre-planned ambush site, U.S. intelligence sources say.
Iraqi insurgents had set up several ambush points around Fallujah, the city west of Baghdad that is a hotbed of anti-American sentiment, and had stocked them with gasoline on the morning of the attack, intelligence sources told ABCNEWS.
Some townspeople had been warned to stay inside.
"This was clearly an attack to get maximum media exposure," said one source.
The four contractors left the Iraqi city of Taji on Tuesday to escort a convoy of several flatbed trucks full of goods. The plan was to spend the night at a U.S. base called TQ, west of Fallujah. Instead, the convoy ended up at a base east of Fallujah.
On Wednesday morning, with two contractors in the lead SUV and two others in an SUV at the rear of the flatbeds, a decision was made to drive through Fallujah.
Each of the security guards was armed with an assault rifle and an automatic pistol. The contractors also had satellite communications on board.
At around 8 a.m., the convoy approached a traffic circle on highway 10 going into the city.
According to intelligence sources, eyewitnesses say a vehicle full of gunmen pulled in front of the lead SUV, while occupants from several other vehicles fired Kalashnikov machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
The contractors were killed, but the truck drivers escaped by driving away. "
Sorry, I don't know how to link, but here is the URL where you can read the rest of the story.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/World/fallujah_attack_040402-1.html
Boy, for being in a city full of American hating people they sure seemed to get all this information quickly, including the ID of the actual perpetrators.
Tell me, if these so-called intellegence sources know all these details, why didn't they ID these people for the media and America to see like they do here in America. Not only that, wouldn't it help to ID these people so that our good Iraqi friends could point to where they are located or hiding?