Heute in Falluja, Zentralirak: (BBC) (...) Witnesses said the contractors were passing through Falluja in two four-wheel-drive vehicles when gunmen opened fire. The victims' remains were hung from a bridge. An angry crowd descended on the cars, throwing stones and setting the vehicles ablaze. The corpses were dragged from the wreckage and television pictures showed one burnt body being kicked and stamped on, while at least two were tied to cars and driven through the city, witnesses said. Adults and children hacked the bodies to pieces, before lynching two of the charred remains from a bridge spanning the Euphrates River. "The people of Falluja hanged some of the bodies on the old bridge like slaughtered sheep," said local resident Abdul Aziz Mohammed. One Iraqi held a sign underneath one of the lynched bodies which read: "Falluja is the cemetery for Americans". (...)
(<a href=story.news.yahoo.com target=_blank>Reuters) Three of four contractors working for the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq who were killed in an ambush in Falluja on Wednesday are U.S. citizens, a State Department official said.