Clearwater security worker killed in Iraq [View All]

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http://www.sptimes.com/2004/06/08/Tampabay/Clearwater_security_w.shtml


CLEARWATER - Chris Neidrich was scheduled to fly home after six months in Iraq but volunteered to stay behind to help train some civilian security replacements. The decision cost him his life.

Neidrich, 31, a Clearwater resident who worked for the large private security contractor Blackwater USA, was killed Saturday with three other Blackwater employees after their two-vehicle convoy was attacked on the road to the Baghdad airport.

Neidrich is best known locally for his 1998 arrest by a Pinellas sheriff's deputy for wearing a cap emblazoned with LAPD, the initials of the Los Angeles Police Department. The deputy said he wasn't an officer and shouldn't have been wearing it. The arrest generated international publicity for Neidrich, who had long wanted to work in law enforcement

Neidrich was unable to find a job as a police officer, and his lawyer said he believed publicity from the arrest dogged him.The CIS Web site shows Neidrich standing next to L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq whose motorcade Neidrich once protected. Poulin said Neidrich was on a detail protecting members of the Saudi royal family traveling in the United States before he went to Iraq.

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