Newspaper: S.C. Civilian Killed in Iraq

NNN0LHI

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Sat Nov-13-04 04:23 PM
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Newspaper: S.C. Civilian Killed in Iraq

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041113/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_worker_killed&cid=540&ncid=1480

CONWAY, S.C. - A former county police officer working for a U.S. contractor in Iraq (news - web sites) was killed while traveling to Fallujah, a newspaper reported Saturday.

David Randolph, an employee of EOD Technology Inc. was killed Tuesday during a tactical operation, Horry County police Sgt. Andy Christenson told The Sun News of Myrtle Beach. snip

Randolph, who previously served in Iraq as a second lieutenant with the Army National Guard, left the police department nearly a year ago to work for the security firm Blackwater USA. He came back to South Carolina in August and returned to Iraq in October to work for EOD Technology.

The department will establish a fund to help Randolph's wife, Elizabeth "Susie" Randolph, and their four children, including 3-year-old twins and a 9-month-old son.

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nadinbrzezinski

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Sat Nov-13-04 04:25 PM
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1. ok will sound cruel maybe but

Balckwell paid him 10oK + in a tax free zone, so did this company...

so they are establishign a fund for exactly what? Justify the war? Justify Mercs?

YES he was a Merc...

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Tom Yossarian Joad

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Sat Nov-13-04 04:27 PM
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2. Sad. I wonder if his family thinks the extra pay was worth it.

I doubt they do. I doubt they did.

It's a poor state that so many are dying in the name of their corporation in this "war."

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Must_B_Free

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Sat Nov-13-04 04:29 PM
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3. from conway to conwaste

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htuttle

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Sat Nov-13-04 04:31 PM
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4. I wonder what kind of 'tactical operation' they are outsourcing?

For some reason, I'd been under the silly impression that the private military contractors were mostly guards. This sounds like they were undertaking active military operations.

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SheilaT

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Sat Nov-13-04 04:53 PM
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5. It's not as though

Edited on Sat Nov-13-04 04:54 PM by SheilaT

the war over there started last week, and people like Randolph were caught unawares. He was even back in the states for a while and chose to return. If he didn't have a major-league life insurance policy, what a shame, but who's starting funds to help out the families of dead U.S. soldiers who get a minuscule death benefit in the first place?

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pinerow

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Sat Nov-13-04 04:53 PM
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6. I'm having a hard time being sympathetic...I look at it this way...

if I ask my wife and kids what is more important...the money or having me around...i know th answer to that one...

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