Comments on: 5 Americans detained in Iraq for murder of former KBR manager

By: ms sparky

ms sparky — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:22:27 +0000

Here’s the latest on the Kitterman murder investigation.

Iraq transfers American contractors to U.S. custody

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/14/iraq.contractors/index.html

By: ms sparky

ms sparky — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:29:08 +0000

Here’s an update in the Kitterman murder case.

First of detained U.S. contractors freed in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — One of five U.S. contractors who had been detained in Baghdad has been released and others will be freed soon, the wife of the released man said.
Earlier Wednesday an Iraqi judge decided that charges against the contractors were not warranted. The reason for the contractors’ detention had been unclear.
The five were initially told they were being held in connection with the death last month of another contractor, James Kitterman, said the source close to the five.
But on Monday the men were told they were being held on suspicion of having unregistered weapons, although they were asked about their activities around the time Kitterman was killed.
However, Iraqi government officials told CNN Monday the five were detained as suspects in connection with Kitterman’s slaying.
The Iraqi security source said the contractors will either be released Wednesday or Thursday. They are waiting to finish the logistical procedures at the police station where they had been held.
None of the five has been charged with a crime.
Kitterman was found bound, blindfolded and fatally stabbed in a car in Baghdad’s Green Zone on May 22. The 60-year-old from Houston, Texas, owned a construction company that operated in Iraq.
The Green Zone, where Kitterman’s body was discovered, is the high-security area in central Baghdad that contains the U.S. Embassy and key Iraqi government buildings.

Access to the area, formally known as the International Zone, is tightly controlled.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/10/iraq.contractors/index.html

By: ms sparky

ms sparky — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:04:14 +0000

Here is an update to this incident:

Iraq says 4 US contractors detained, not 5

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA – 1 day ago

BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi government spokesman says four Americans, not five, have been detained in an investigation into the killing last month of a U.S. contractor in the Green Zone.

Ali al-Dabbagh says four Americans and one Iraqi were picked up Wednesday during a raid on the Corporate Training Unlimited house. He says the raid was ordered after Iraqi security forces received information that a suspect involved in last month’s stabbing death of contractor Jim Kitterman might be there.

Al-Dabbagh says the raiding party found the contractors’ weapons permits and operating license had expired and took them into custody.

It was unclear if the purported suspect in Kitterman’s death was in the house when the raid occurred.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h0HHloCYEgZ-xGroT79QZn9PeAowD98MFS9G0

By: ms sparky

ms sparky — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:08:18 +0000

Here is an article about a CTU employee that was killed in the Green Zone the night before Jim Kitterman was killed. CTU is having a bad month.

http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=327512

By: ms sparky

ms sparky — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:44:44 +0000

Here’s another article with a little different spin on it from the Salt Lake Tribune. I feel there is A LOT more to this story.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12541010