State Dept. Official Killed in Attack at U.S. Military Base
The bodies of 49 freshly trained Iraqi National Guard recruits, lined
up and executed by insurgents, were discovered on a roadside about 75
miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said Sunday. In a separate
attack, a member of the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic
Security was killed when a rocket or mortar round landed in a U.S.
military base adjoining the Baghdad airport early Sunday morning.
Edward J. Seitz, 41, was the assistant regional security officer for
the U.S. Embassy. The massacre of the recruits occurred shortly after
sunset Saturday near the army's main training base in Kirkush, said
Col. Adnan Abdul-Rahman, a spokesman for the interim Interior Ministry.
The recruits had just departed the base aboard three buses to begin a
20-day leave when they were stopped at a checkpoint manned by
insurgents dressed as Iraqi police, residents said, according to
Abdul-Rahman. Most of the recruits appeared to have filed off the
buses, lined up in four rows and lain down before they were shot. The
first 37 bodies were discovered Saturday night. Another 12 were found
after daybreak Sunday a short distance away, still inside the minibus
where they were killed. Three drivers were among those killed. [more ] and [more ]
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