Iraq official: U.S. guards detained in Baghdad

[RamboLiberal]

Source: MSNBC/AP

Iraqi soldiers detained two American security guards along with several other foreigners traveling Monday in a private security convoy after they opened fire in Baghdad, wounding one woman, an Iraqi military spokesman said.

U.S. military and embassy officials had no immediate information about the report, which follows a series of recent shootings in which foreign security guards have allegedly killed Iraqis.

Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi said the convoy was driving on the wrong side of the road in the central Baghdad neighborhood of Karradah when the shooting occurred.

Those arrested included two American guards, along with 21 people from Sri Lanka, nine from Nepal and 10 Iraqis, al-Moussawi said. He earlier said an Italian, nine from Bangladesh and one from India were detained but later retracted that statement.



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I hope the Iraqi government keeps on doing this till these mercenary outfits like Blackwater are driven out of Iraq!

[Bozita]

1. Sounds like the laborers building the new American embassy.

Sri Lanka and Nepal?

[gratuitous]

2. "Two American security guards"

Makes it sound like a couple of rent-a-cops from the local mall, doesn't it?