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[PfcHammer]

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/8574414.htm

Posted on Sun, May. 02, 2004

At least 6 Navy Seabees killed in attack on base

By Carol Rosenberg

Knight Ridder Newspapers

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq - Insurgents fired mortars inside a Marine base in Ramadi Sunday, killing at least six Navy Seabees from a Florida reserve unit and wounding about 20 others. The casualties bring to eight the number of sailors killed in three days from the same unit, which arrived here just two weeks ago to work on Iraqi reconstruction projects.

Separately, American truck driver Thomas Hamill, 43, of Macon, Miss., escaped his Iraqi kidnappers three weeks after he was taken captive after an ambush on his convoy. Hamill's face was broadcast across the globe in a chilling video that raised the specter of a Lebanonlike hostage drama in Iraq.

Hamill walked up to a New York National Guard Unit on patrol in Balad, 30 miles south of Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, the U.S. military said. He had a gunshot wound in his arm but was in good health. The Halliburton contractor then led soldiers back to the house where he was held; soldiers surrounded it and captured two Iraqis.

"He had an opportunity to escape, saw some U.S. forces and made his dash," said Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on a Sunday morning television news show.

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[bluestateguy]

1. is this new?

geez.

[markses]

3. This is the 6 earlier reported

Not newer than that.

[jimshoes]

2. We're so screwed right now in Iraq....

The private companies have left the country, GE, and a German company whose name escapes me and now the seabees are getting killed trying to rebuild shit. How much longer is this going to keep up.

[WVhill]

4. The original report said

that GE and Siemens were almost finished. Unless they're building new power plants. That makes sense.