Three Blackwater guards killed with State Dept. official in Iraq

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/iraq/12704788.htm

MOYOCK, N.C. - Three private security guards killed while guarding a U.S. State Department motorcade in Iraq worked for North Carolina-based Blackwater Security Consulting, the company said.

The Moyock-based company will not release the names or hometowns of the dead contract workers "out of respect for the families and their privacy," spokeswoman Anne Duke said Wednesday.

They worked for a subsidiary of security contractor Blackwater USA, which had four employees slain and mutilated by insurgents in Fallujah last year.

The three guards were killed along with a Diplomatic Security agent attached to the State Department when their convoy was hit by a suicide car bomber in Mosul, Iraq, on Monday, the company and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad said. The four were attached to the U.S. Embassy's regional office in the northern Iraqi city.

Blackwater has a contract to protect State Department employees in Iraq.

Do we get our money back? They didn't protect this State Department employee very well.

Moyock NC

they've started reporting MERC deaths along with the real soldiers on NPR?

Privatization for everything is in order, it seems. How else can only the RICH decide everything. That electing stuff wasn't always working so well for the truly rich - so they take over education and the military, energy and finances, - and of course the media - and the people must bend their will in all things.