- BAGHDAD (AP) -- Attackers
opened fire today on a three-vehicle convoy of contractors working for
the U.S.-led coalition, killing some of them, a U.S. military spokesman
said.
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- Gunmen opened fire from a highway overpass west of Baghdad,
disabling two of the vehicles and killing an unknown number of people,
U.S. Brig.-Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy operations chief, told reporters.
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- A third vehicle - hit by small-arms fire - made it safely
to a coalition base, Kimmitt said.
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- "I got those reports firsthand from some shaken-up
contractors," Kimmitt said.
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- He did not say who the contractors were working for or
give their nationalities.
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