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| Iraq bomb kills US State Department official |
| 2009-05-27 |
| [Beirut Daily Star: Region] A roadside bomb struck a US convoy in western Iraq, killing three Americans, including a senior State Department official, US officials said Tuesday. The blast killed Terence Barnich, the deputy director of the State Department's Iraq Transition Assistance Office in Baghdad, as well as a US soldier and a civilian contractor as their convoy left a construction site near Fallujah on Monday, military and government officials said. Two others were wounded. The contractor killed in Monday's blast was a Defense Department employee assigned to the US Embassy in Baghdad, US officials said. His name and that of the soldier killed have not been released pending notification of next of kin. Barnich, 56, of Chicago, and the others were returning from an inspection of a US government-funded wastewater treatment plant under construction in Fallujah when their vehicle drove over a roadside bomb, said State Department spokesman Robert Wood. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 whoops, disappeared as if by |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-05-27 22:06 |
| #5 and by "your men like this" the pre-pubescent junk-polisher meant: "me, in my fevered wet dreams". Hi Justice! Gotten over your virginity-taking by the local Vice and Virtue Gang Bang Committee? Ima hoping you are well. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-05-27 22:05 |
| #4 Verlaine, I heard a report on NPR the other day that the security employees are mostly unchanged from the Blackwater days. Only the name signing the paycheck has changed. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-05-27 14:43 |
| #3 Word, tipover. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-05-27 05:53 |
| #2 Can't imagine they didn't have security of some kind. Blackwater could be replaced by Aegis or Global or (fill in the blank), with literally the same personnel as previously employed by Blackwater - but most of you know all that. Wonder if this was just "luck" or a targeted hit - sounds like by far the most senior US casualty in Iraq to date. Sad and infuriating. I'll stop now before I say more. |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2009-05-27 02:49 |
| #1 Looks like someone wishes Blackwater was still around... |
| Posted by: tipover 2009-05-27 01:14 |