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US Soldier Held in Iraq Contractor's Shooting Death

Contractor for Houston-based KBR shot to death, died at 8:30am

By Mat Probasco,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 14, 2009 5:33 AM CDT

(Newser) – A US soldier is being held in the shooting death of a civilian contractor in Tikrit, Iraq, reports CNN. Houston-based military contractor KBR said the victim shot to death yesterday at Contingency Operating Base Speicher was an employee.

A US soldier in Tikrit, Iraq, where an American contractor was shot to death.
A US soldier in Tikrit, Iraq, where an American contractor was shot to death.   (Getty Images)
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jagerhans
Sep 14, 2009 2:38 AM CDT
not to mention our g-man Nicola Calipari shredded with a ton of BMG rounds at a road block (after freeing the hostage Sgrena) by the notorious junkie Mario Lozano who opened fire for no reason when the car was still over 100 mts away and of course he obtained a full discharge too.
jagerhans
Sep 14, 2009 2:32 AM CDT
when the rudder of a US plane shorn the cable of the Italian cableway of Cermis killing twenty, the pilot Richard Ashby was discharged, after all the victims were all puny non-americans. let's see how this story will end, now that a US private killed one real human being.
passinthru
Sep 14, 2009 2:06 AM CDT
wow that was one helluva article...how bout a little more depth???

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