From the Houston Chronicle - no comment needed:
Insurgents kill Halliburton driver, soldier
WASHINGTON -- A least one Halliburton Co. truck driver and a U.S soldier are dead and possibly "several" others unaccounted for Friday after insurgents attacked a fuel convoy west of Baghdad.
Two U.S. soldiers were known to be missing after the midday assault on the truck convoy, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad confirmed.
The spokesman could not say, however, whether any other Halliburton employees were missing. But CNN reported Friday evening that "several" private contractors, including some Americans, may have been kidnapped.
An additional 12 members of the convoy were wounded in the attack, some seriously enough to be evacuated to combat support hospitals, military officials said. Officials could not say late Friday whether the injured were soldiers, workers or both.
Halliburton officials scrambled Friday to learn whether some of their workers had indeed become some of the latest victims of the insurgents' new strategy of kidnapping foreigners.
Reached by telephone, Randy Harl, president of KBR, the Halliburton subsidiary formerly known as Kellogg Brown & Root that is serving as the Pentagon's contractor in Iraq, said late Friday that company officials were still trying to get information about the incident.
