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Iraqi Police Suspected In Slaying of Americans
Washington Post ^

Posted on 03/12/2004 10:34:52 PM PST by Happy2BMe

BAGHDAD, March 12 -- Four men suspected in the slaying of two Americans working for the occupation authority in Iraq appear to be active Iraqi police officers, U.S. officials said Friday.

The Americans, Fern L. Holland, 33, and Robert J. Zangas, 44, and Holland's Iraqi translator, Salwa Ourmashi, were shot dead around 6 p.m. Tuesday near Hilla, about 60 miles south of Baghdad. Shortly afterward, Polish troops apprehended six Iraqi men riding in the victims' car and discovered that four carried cards that identified them as police, officials said.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: americans; fernholland; impostors; insidejob; iraq; iraqipolice; police; robertzangas
Not a good feeling to be an American being "protected" by an Iraqi (Muslim) policeman.

These things are to be expected.

1 posted on 03/12/2004 10:34:52 PM PST by Happy2BMe
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To: Happy2BMe
Maybe they weren't terrorists... maybe they were just FBI trained.
2 posted on 03/13/2004 2:44:56 AM PST by Grut
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To: Happy2BMe
Speculation on my part but I think they kept the bodies in the car in order to collect a bounty.
3 posted on 03/13/2004 5:57:29 AM PST by Ranger
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They need to be tried and shot if found guilty. Quickly and without any fanfare. The only publicity should be that they killed innocent people and they were in turn killed.

No faces or names for terrorists to take up as "martyrs". Know years long celebrity farce of justice. Just knowledge that justice will be swift and determined.
4 posted on 03/13/2004 6:01:27 PM PST by PropheticZero
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