Slain Iraqi translator branded a traitor for working with U.S. forces

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KHALDIYAH, Iraq - The graffiti on the wall should have been warning enough for William Kaiser Napoleon.

"Everyone who provides a service to the Americans is a traitor and an agent," said the graffiti scrawled on a wall in Fallujah's main street.

Napoleon, a translator for the U.S. Army, was shot to death, along with his 16-year-old son, early Thursday in Khaldiyah by four men. The victims were sleeping on the sidewalk next to their house to escape the heat.

Napoleon's family is Christian and uses Western names, hence his unusual name. Relatives set up a tent outside his home to receive condolences next to a wall riddled with bullet holes and stained with dried blood.

"He was killed because he was a spy and a traitor," said a neighbor. He and other townspeople spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing they might be targeted in any vendetta.

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