AP: U.S. Soldiers Kill Halliburton Employee.

[bdrube]

I swear it's like the keystone cops over there these days.  It
would be funny if it wasn't so horrific.



BAGHDAD, Iraq U-S forces have shot and killed a civilian
contract truck driver in Iraq. A second person in the truck
was wounded.

Lieutenant Commander Bill Speaks says it happened on Monday at
Camp Anaconda, a huge air base north of Baghdad. Speaks calls
it "an escalation of force incident." He says the
incident is under investigation by the Army Criminal
Investigation Division and the contractor, K-B-R, a subsidiary
of Halliburton.

An escalation of force incident normally means a driver
approaching a checkpoint did not respond to military orders to
approach slowly and stop.

A K-B-R spokeswoman says 98 K-B-R employees and subcontractors
have lost their lives, and more than 430 have been wounded by
hostile action, while performing services under the company's
government contracts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait.

[Little Wing]

1. 98 from KBR alone

I wonder what the total contractor count is

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3. 388, according to Antiwar.com. Not all are Americans, though. n/t

[boobooday]

2. Hard to know who the enemy is

In this mess BushCo has made.

[StClone]

4. I would be confused too

Is KBR with us or against us?

My condolences to a the KBR employee's family.

[whistle]

5. Maybe it is the beginning of the revolution, exploited lied to U.S. military

...saying "Down with capitalist Halliburton dogs" or maybe the U.S. military have become the mad men of God!

[caligirl]

6. Didn't think he had to stop at a checkpoint? How familiar, Rules don't app;y thinking.