Five US contractors arrested in Iraq for murder of colleague

Five men arrested Sunday in Baghdad could become the first Americans to be tried under Iraqi law.

Five men arrested Sunday in Baghdad could become the first Americans to be tried under Iraqi law.
The men were arrested in connection with the killing of James Owen Kitterman, 60, an American reconstruction contractor who was found stabbed to death on May 22. Maj. Gen Hussein Kamal, the deputy minister for intelligence of the Interior Ministry, said, “The five detainees are from the same company as the American contractor who was slain.”
Mr. Kitterman, who had worked in Iraq for several different companies before striking out on his own, was president of Janus Construction, a firm he started last year, said Dennis Wright, president of Peregrine, a contracting company based in Kuwait that Mr. Kitterman helped set up. Mr. Kitterman had worked as a contractor in Iraq almost continually since 2003, Mr. Wright said.
He had been stabbed repeatedly, according to a security official who works in the Green Zone and was familiar with the case. LinkHere
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