http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/13/MNGSGBAGRH1.DTLSuspicion surrounds missing Bay Area man
His fellow military contract worker pointed to kickback schemes -- and then was killed
In the midafternoon of Oct. 9, 2003, Kirk von Ackermann, an American contract worker from the Bay Area, used a satellite phone to call a colleague from a lonely desert road between Tikrit and Kirkuk in northern Iraq. He told his colleague he had a flat tire and needed a jack.
About 45 minutes later, the colleague found von Ackermann's car, abandoned. There was no sign of von Ackermann, who had been alone when he called. No hint of struggle, not even a footprint. All that remained was his satellite phone, his laptop computer, and, on the car's backseat a briefcase holding $40,000 in $100 bills.
"It was as if he had been abducted by aliens," Ryan Manelick told The Chronicle shortly after von Ackermann disappeared. Manelick was one of von Ackermann's colleagues at Ultra Services, a civilian contracting company they both worked for in Iraq, supplying U.S. military bases with tents, mobile homes, toilets, computers and Internet access.
Just over two months later, on the morning of Dec. 14, Manelick was shot dead near Camp Anaconda, a U.S. military base about 50 miles north of Baghdad, and about 50 miles south of where von Ackermann had disappeared.
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both families of the men think they were murdered for knowing too much.
hey, its just the bushgang's BBBT&M at work
(bully, bribe, blackmail, threaten and if all else fails, murder)
whose afraid of the bloody bushgang, the bloody bushgang, the bloody bushgang?
everybody?
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