The more sensationalist parts of this story are disputed now:
From the Associated Press:
US military denies American contractors killed in Iraq were burned by mob
BAGHDAD, Iraq The U-S military is denying a newspaper report that the bodies of four American contractors killed in Iraq were set on fire by a mob.
The military says all four were in their vehicles with bullet wounds and one of them was burned from a vehicle fire. It says another one was injured but later died of his wounds.
The contractors were ambushed by insurgents last month after their convoy got lost in a town north of Baghdad.
A British newspaper that first reported the attack yesterday said a mob dragged the bodies from the vehicles and set them on fire.
Major Richard Goldenberg tells The Associated Press soldiers in his task-force returned to the area two days later and killed two insurgents after coming under fire.
The Washington Post says the killings bring to 320 the number of non-Iraqi civilian contractors killed in the reports since the start of the war in March 2003
Thanks Occam ... will use your comment to update the entry!
:: sigh:: I notice that the WashPo article was confirmed with a "senior military official" ... i.e., one of those wonderful anonymous sources ...
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