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Cincinnati EnquirerMaupin's capture avoidable?
Security advisers tried to halt convoy with soldier, paper says
BY HOWARD WILKINSON | HWILKINSON@ENQUIRER.COM
Senior managers for defense contractor KBR rejected the advice of their own security advisers in April 2004, ordering their truck drivers to speed through a five-mile combat zone in Iraq to deliver jet fuel to the U.S. military, according to a newspaper investigation.
Army Spc. Keith M. Maupin, of Batavia, was part of that doomed convoy and was captured. He remains missing.
At least six civilian drivers and two U.S. soldiers died following KBR's decision, raising anew questions about the military's reliance on civilian contractors in war zones. The families and some survivors of the convoy are suing the Houston-based company and are requesting a federal investigation of KBR's role in the incident....
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This report deserves to be on every front page throughout the country!