US hostage killed in Iraq, two others freed: Basra official

[ECH1969]

An American hostage was found dead and two others were rescued by police, a provincial official said, a day after they were kidnapped along with another two Westerners in southern Iraq.

"Iraqi police found the body of an American where they conducted a raid in which two other Americans were freed," an official with the provincial governorate of Iraq's southern city of Basra told АFР.

One US citizen and an Austrian are yet to be traced, following the raid in an area called Al-Dawajin in Zubair district, the official said.

http://www.bakutoday.net/view.php?d=29615

[rainbow4321]

1. US hostage killed in Iraq, two others freed: Basra official

http://bakutoday.net/view.php?d=29615

An American hostage was found dead and two others were rescued by police, a provincial official said, a day after they were kidnapped along with another two Westerners in southern Iraq.

[pinerow]

2. Sheesh...!!!

nt

[stillcool]

3. do you ever wonder exactly...

how many pmc's are in Iraq, and how many people they employ?

The five security guards were kidnapped Thursday near Safwan close to the Kuwaiti border as they escorted a convoy of 49 trucks.

Despite the report from the southern official, Crescent Security Group, the Kuwait-based company for which the five work, said it had no confirmation from the US-led coalition.

"We have not received confirmation from the coalition forces that the two people released or the one killed are with our company," a spokesman of the company told АFР in Kuwait City.

[Toots]

4. I thought it was the police that did the kidnapping...

At least the reports said it was Iraqis in Police uniforms. :shrug:

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. Geez! I saw where about 151 American Contractors have died so far.

I had no idea that many had been killed.

[PurityOfEssence]

6. And these aren't remodeling carpenters, they're mercenaries

This isn't a dig at you, it's a dig at the use of the pity-sucking term "contractors", which is designed to have us think they're innocent civilian tradespeople instead of the hired-gun ex-military guys they really are.

It just gets worse and worse.