Posted on 10/23/2005 9:58:27 AM PDT by bnelson44
Four Were Slain by Angry Mob Last Month
BAGHDAD, Oct. 22 -- Four U.S. contractors were killed last month when their convoy took a wrong turn, drove into a town north of Baghdad and was attacked by an angry mob, a senior U.S. military official said Saturday.
The incident, which occurred Sept. 20 in the town of Duluiyah, about 45 miles north of Baghdad, was first reported Saturday by Britain's Daily Telegraph. The senior U.S. military commander confirmed the account to The Washington Post. There was no explanation for why the military did not report the deaths earlier.
The commander said the four men -- identified by the Telegraph as employees of the Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root -- realized their convoy had taken a wrong turn and were desperately trying to escape from the town when their vehicle was attacked by insurgents.
The Telegraph said "dozens of Sunni Arab insurgents wielding rocket launchers and automatic rifles" pursued their truck and shot at it.
Two contractors who were not killed in the initial firing were dragged from their vehicle, and one was shot in the back of the head, the newspaper said. The crowd "doused the other with petrol and set him alight. Barefoot children, yelping in delight, piled straw on to the screaming man's body to stoke the flames," according to the report.
The crowd then "dragged their corpses through the street, chanting anti-U.S. slogans," the newspaper reported.
Details of the account could not be independently verified. The incident is reportedly under investigation.
"Soldiers responded to assist the convoy, administered first aid to two wounded contractors and evacuated the remains of four wounded contractors killed in the attack," a military spokesman told the Reuters news service in a statement Saturday.
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Wow, so it's true.
I was so desperately hoping it wasn't.
Why would anyone working in Iraq be un-armed?
I am anxiously awaiting the outcry over burning this American, ALIVE. Is the Australian media going to pick up on this story as well?
I too am awaiting Rumsfeld's demand for quick action to determine who burned this American. McNamara Jr in my opinion.
^^^^^^^^^^^^The crowd then "dragged their corpses through the street, chanting anti-U.S. slogans," the newspaper reported.^^^^^^^^^^^^
Now where have I heard that one from?
I'm honestly surprised the liberal media didn't jump all over this.
Give them 24 hours
DU has it
The article is dated from last year. Did this incident just happen, or did it happen last year?
typo. 2005
Meanwhile at the White House, our time-of-undeclared-war President invites the Enemy for dinner and feeds the public more "Religion of Peace" rubbish:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1507642/posts
typo. It happened this year, article is from today.
Dang. Sorry to hear about this. The military should level that place.
Angry mob drags them from their vehicle and beat and burn them to death. As bare foot children yelp in delight? Don't seems like these people are our friends, or want democracy.
These people don't. They are Baathists.
That isn't our style anymore. Someone may be offended.
Oh I see. These crowds were the bad guys. What were the good guys in town doing when Americans were being burned alive?
Let's see now, soldiers burn bodies in Afghanistan as the smell is overpowering and likely will face UCMJ action, these #$%&^#@*&( burn a guy to death and there is no outrage in the MSM. Now I know why I don't watch the news anymore, not even FOX.
There are probably very few good guys in that town.
So when I hear someone disrespect Halliburton today because of the connection to Cheney etc., .... what should my emotion be toward the venom they will invariably spew. I know what this company has done for the world. Yet to the really ignorant it is just another faceless corporation with some vague old connection to someone in the White House. Should I fell pity towards the democrats spewing hate at this company? Disgust? Outrage? I know better than to go see the comments at the D.U. on this story. They think they have rage. We feel rage too. Rage we control because we live in a civilized society. I think of all the D. U. types and then I go to the ballot box.
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