Level Green(Pittsburgh, PA) man killed in Iraq (The male civilian killed)

This one is close to home for me. Only a few miles down the road.

http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/news/s_184168.html

Brenda Zangas remembers her husband as a tough U.S. Marine who wasn't afraid to display his gentle side with his three children and his compassionate side to the people of Iraq.

Robert J. "Bob" Zangas, 44, of Autumn Drive in the Level Green section of Penn Township, was one of the first two American civilians working for the Coalition Provisional Authority killed Tuesday in Iraq along with an Iraqi interpreter. They were gunned down near the town of Hillah, 35 miles south of Baghdad, by insurgents wearing police uniforms, according to news reports.

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After Bob Zangas returned home from a military tour in Iraq in September, he had a burning desire to go back and help the Iraqi people rebuild their lives and their country.

"He genuinely liked helping people," said Brenda Zangas, a native of Butler.

He went back in December as a civilian to help them rebuild their newspapers and radio and television stations.

"I am doing something that will help the Iraqi people really get the democracy message out to the masses," he wrote on his Web site.

"I am doing something that will help the Iraqi people really get the democracy message out to the masses"

Instead they sent "Bob" the message: Come around here without being inside a tank and you are dead meat.

Look like "Bob" was working for some CIA "radio free" Iraq deal.

getting the "democracy message" out. After all, the coalition destroyed all the newspaper, radio and television stations for the crime of broadcasting and printing what the Iraqis chose to broadcast and print, he was going to work for the coalition to re-build them for that purpose??? Doubtful.