Four Killed in Baghdad's Green Zone

[Englander]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4638622,00.html
Friday November 26, 2004 1:46 PM

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A mortar attack killed four employees of a British security firm and wounded 15 others in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, the company and British officials said Friday.

The dead were former Gurkha fighters, Britain's foreign office said.

``The mortar landed in their camp,'' said a Foreign Office official on condition of anonymity

Tim J. O'Brien, spokesman for the London-based Global Risk Strategies, said the employees were killed Thursday, but declined to say what killed them.

[Sideways]

1. Gee Tim Do Ya Think It Was An Exploding Hot-Dog?

What a fucking joke. Probably not a big deal to Tim you know Gurkha's being brown and all that stuff. Once again getting the Indians to do the dirty work. Fuckers.

[bahrbearian]

2. Well they were probably not Christians, they play a minor role in

Chimpy's and his Poodles crusade.

[UpInArms]

3. related article: Former Gurkha Soldiers Killed in Baghdad Mortar Attack

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3808471

Four former Gurkha soldiers working for a British security firm were killed in a mortar attack attack in Baghdad’s Green Zone.

Tim O’Brien, spokesman for London-based Global Risk Strategies, confirmed said the men died yesterday and about another 15 had various injuries.

“There was an incident yesterday. We lost four people and had 12 to 15 who were injured,” he said. “We can’t confirm what this incident actually was until we go through internal investigations.”

In London, the Foreign Office said the deaths and injuries resulted from a mortar attack on the Green Zone, the fortified area on the western bank of the Tigris River that houses the US and Iraqi leadership.

A British official said those killed were former Gurkhas, renowned Nepalese soldiers.

“The mortar landed in their camp,” said a Foreign Office official.

...more...

Dying for money...

[sattahipdeep]

4. mercenary firm

The American people unfortunately are not as informed, concerned, or
supportive about this deepening crisis as they ought to be.
A national poll sponsored by the Chicago Tribune on First Amendment issues
in late June found that roughly half of the public believe there should
have been some kind of "press restraint" on coverage of the Abu Ghraib prison
abuse scandal in Iraq somewhat ironic considering that the chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Richard Myers, personally had implored CBS's
60 Minutes II to keep its expose off the air in the name of national security,
which the network actually did voluntarily until learning that investigative
reporter Seymour Hersh would be publishing the story in The New Yorker.

In general, according to Charles Madigan, editor of the Tribune's
Perspective section, fifty or sixty percent of the public
"would embrace government controls of some kind on free speech,
particularly when it has sexual content or is heard as unpatriotic." :crazy:

http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=426&sid=200

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1001331

August 30, 2001
SECRET SUBPOENA http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/july-dec01/subpoena_8-30.html