Iraqis arrest Brit in killing of two fellow contractors
Posted: August 10, 2009 at 5:02 a.m.
A private contractor acknowledges colleagues flying over in a helicopter as they secure the scene of a roadside bomb attack in this 2005 photo. Iraqi authorities arrested a British contractor on murder charges Sunday in the shooting deaths of a British and an Australian contractor in Baghdad's Green Zone.
Iraqi authorities arrested a British security contractor Sunday in connection with the shooting deaths of two co-workers in Baghdad's protected Green Zone. The suspect could be the first Westerner to face an Iraqi trial on murder charges since a security pact lifted the immunity that had been enjoyed by foreign contractors for most of the war.
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