Peaceful Basra

BrooklynDodger wonders whether these mercenaries were killed by the Sunni insurgency, operating in enemy territory, or by the Iranian allied Shiite fundamentalist paramilitaries which maintain the “peace” in Basra.

Why won’t the media call mercenaries what they are?

Four Security Contractors Killed in Basra
Roadside Bomb Hits Convoy of U.S. Embassy Officials
By Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Foreign ServiceWednesday, September 7, 2005; 9:48 AM
BAGHDAD, Sept. 7--A roadside bomb hit a convoy of a U.S. Embassy regional office in the southern city of Basra on Wednesday, killing four security contractors in the convoy, the U.S. Embassy said….