Five men arrested Sunday in Baghdad could become the first Americans to be tried under Iraqi law.
The men were arrested in connection with the killing of James Owen Kitterman, 60, an American reconstruction contractor who was found stabbed to death on May 22. Maj. Gen Hussein Kamal, the deputy minister for intelligence of the Interior Ministry, said, “The five detainees are from the same company as the American contractor who was slain.”
Mr. Kitterman, who had worked in Iraq for several different companies before striking out on his own, was president of Janus Construction, a firm he started last year, said Dennis Wright, president of Peregrine, a contracting company based in Kuwait that Mr. Kitterman helped set up. Mr. Kitterman had worked as a contractor in Iraq almost continually since 2003, Mr. Wright said.
He had been stabbed repeatedly, according to a security official who works in the Green Zone and was familiar with the case.
-- Stephen C. Webster
this violence is truly unacceptable. needs to stop.
He was probably gay, or 'stiffed' them some other way.
I'm going with the "He's gonna rat them out on something they did or were gonna do" FTW. What do I win Barry!?!
chalk me up for whistleblowing murder too...
you know,...tillman style...almost
Translation: That reconstruction money is ours, ass face.
Reave it arone., or else..
North Korea sentence Journalist to 12 years in Prison
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said its top court convicted two U.S. journalists and sentenced them to 12 years in labor prison Monday, intensifying the reclusive nation's confrontation with the United States.
The North's Central Court tried American TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee during proceedings running from last Thursday to Monday and found them guilty of a "grave crime" against the nation, and of illegally crossing into North Korea, the country's state-run Korean Central News Agency said.
It said the court "sentenced each of them to 12 years of reform through labor." The KCNA report gave no other details.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/08/laur...
How can they be convicted if they are tortured?
The Raw Story » Five US contractors arrested for murder of colleague...
Mr. Kitterman, who had worked in Iraq for several different companies before striking out on his own, was president of Janus Construction, a firm he started last year, said Dennis Wright, president of Peregrine, a contracting company based in Kuwait th...
He was just some fuck wad war profiteer from Texas, he can burn in hell. It'll be great to see his 5 fellow war profiteers do some time in an Iraqi prison though, lol!
There isnt enough information in the snippits on the Kittering murder to really comment on. What was the motive, what are the attacker's names, what were the circumstances? What did the attackers have to say, if anything? Will they have to serve time in Iraqi prison if found guilty?
I WANT TO KNOW WHY A FEW COUNTRIES CANNOT GET TOGETHER AND GET THESE WOMAN OUT NOW!!!! THIS DOES NOT SEEM RIGHT TO ME. THEY CANT SIT THERE FOR 12 YEARS NO WAY!
That's odd, the previous headline for this story claimed it was 'security' contractors that had been detained. Now it's just 'five men'. Hoping to stick another one on Xe RS? Or just following the crowd?
@Don't Fear the Reaper & w.c.
Whistleblowing STOPS the gravy train...There's more info to be found on this than what's posted on whiner sites.
@Vinnie
The information that comes out of the investigation will be just enough to sink the guys that were caught, the names don't matter and the motive and circumstances are becoming old stories already in the 'box. Look at what other contractors are already saying (and have been since well before '03).