9 Killed in Iraq

4 contractors, specifically in faluja to improve the lives of iraqis were killed by...iraqis. the stupidity of these killings is beyond belief. Killing innocents, the non combatants, the people responsible for making iraq more livable, more prosperous....they weren't armed or engaged in attacks, searches or raids. they were not part of a ruling coalition party. they were not involved with the policing or peacekeeping in the area.

they were there to improve the lives of iraqis.

they were killed by animals:
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - In one of the bloodiest and most horrifying days since the end of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, five U.S. troops and four American civilian contractors were killed in separate attacks in the Sunni Triangle west of Baghdad. After an ambush on two vehicles carrying the civilian contractors in Fallujah, jubilant Iraqis burned and mutilated the dead, then dragged two corpses through the streets and hung them from a bridge spanning the Euphrates River.

The brutal treatment of the bodies occurred after the contractors — four American employees of a North Carolina security company — were killed in a rebel attack on their two SUVs in the city about 35 miles west of Baghdad, scene of some of the worst violence on both sides of the conflict since the beginning of the American occupation a year ago.

Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said at a briefing in Baghdad that it was not known what the coalition contractors were doing in Fallujah — apparently without a military escort — when the attack occurred.
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