South African Security Guard Shot Dead in Baghdad

[PfcHammer]

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South African Security Guard Shot Dead in Baghdad
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By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A gunman in traditional Arab robe and headdress shot and killed a South African security guard in a Baghdad shop Thursday after accusing him of being a Jew, officials and witnesses said.

Police sources had earlier said the victim was a Spaniard.

"He was a South African," Health Minister Khudier Abbas told Reuters. "He worked in the CPA (Coalition Provisional Authority) with security, as a bodyguard."

Witnesses said the man was shot in the head at around 10:45 a.m. (0645 GMT) while shopping at a small supermarket in the Adhamiyah neighborhood, a Sunni Muslim stronghold. His translator was wounded and rushed to a nearby hospital.

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[BlueEyedSon]

1. Was he military or private sector? nt

[saigon68]

2. Dead is Dead or something like that

Kinda sounds like being in Cholon after the curfew.

[BlueEyedSon]

3. Just tryin to figure out if he was in the "coalition"

[saigon68]

5. I understand--- I wasn't trying to be cute.

Too bad though. Seems like a lot of this happening lately.

[seemslikeadream]

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[daleo]

4. Whatever else he was, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time

i.e. - Iraq in 2004, unless you are an Iraqi.

[BlueEyedSon]

6. Well said

[gottaB]

7. another one??

http://www.nathannewman.org/log/archives/001683.shtml#001683

--blogger Nathan Newman covering the story of Gray Branfield, an RSA "civilian" contractor, lover of freedom, intense violence, torture, murder, and other death squad fun and games.

[bobthedrummer]

9. My teenage nephew, that I love, is half-Jewish

however one looks at intermarriage, there are several in my family-so if someone reportedly kills someone for being a Jew or is just anti-semitic Nazi scum well, I get a little pissed-off too when reports of that type surface, just like I don't care for Sharon policies of building walls and assassination.

But, really now, this could be a use of the world's media to further hidden agendas of the administration of George W. Bush aka The War President and his failed war on terrorism.

A miserable failure.