- BAGHDAD (Reuters) -- Guerrillas
attacked a 21-vehicle civilian supply convoy on its way to Baghdad from
Jordan on Tuesday and several people are unaccounted for, a senior US military
official said.
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- Several vehicles in the convoy were destroyed in the
attack close to Rutba, near the Jordanian border, he told reporters without
indicating the nationalities of those missing.
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- ìA number of people are, as of a couple of hours
ago, still unaccounted for,î the official said.
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- The convoy may have belonged to a sub-contractor to Kellogg,
Brown & Root, which supplies US troops in Iraq, and did not appear
to have had any military escort, he said.
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- A KBR spokeswoman told Reuters she was unaware of any
attack on Tuesday on a convoy run either by the company or a sub-contractor.
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- Last month, guerrillas hit many civilian convoys, including
one in which Mississippi truck driver Thomas Hamill was captured and held
hostage for three weeks before he escaped from a remote shack on hearing
the vehicles of a US patrol.
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- Coordinated attacks on convoys have diminished recently,
although they are still the targets of roadside bombs, a favorite weapon
of guerrillas fighting the US-led force occupying Iraq.
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