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Article: Blackwater contractors linked by common threads.(Front)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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Byline: JOANNE KIMBERLIN
By Joanne Kimberlin
THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
The names of the dead have trickled out. They always do, despite the fact that Blackwater stays silent about such things. Instead, word leaks from towns big and small, as families across the country go public with their loss, and step forward to shoulder the caskets.
It's been just more than a week since five Blackwater USA security contractors were killed while protecting a diplomatic convoy attacked in Baghdad. The men died in two separate helicopters. One, carrying a crew of four, crashed under heavy gunfire. The men inside were then shot, execution-style, in the back ...