[rearguard]

rearguard rearguard:

Note that "security employee" is Newspeak for mercenary. I have no sympathy for the dead merc as he willingly accepted payment in exchange for the possibility that he would be killed in a war zone. As for the Canadian soldiers, I have to wonder what those "multiple warnings" consisted of.

Last Updated: Thursday, April 3, 2008 | 2:35 PM ET
CBC News

A private security employee was killed and three people were injured when a Canadian military convoy fired on their vehicle in southern Afghanistan, the military said Thursday.

The incident occurred around 4 p.m. Wednesday when a provincial reconstruction team was leaving Kandahar airfield on an administrative patrol.

The military said the car was fired at after getting too close to the convoy and ignoring repeated warnings to stop. The injured people were airlifted to the Kandahar airfield hospital for treatment.

"These multiple warnings were not heeded to and a shot fired in direction of the vehicle was required, after which, the vehicle stopped," said Capt. Josée Bilodeau, spokeswoman for Canada's Joint Task Force Afghanistan, in a release.

The name and nationality of the employee has not been released.

The military said it is investigating the incident and offered its condolences to the victim's family.

Full story here
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/04/03/afghan.html

[Dr Caleb]

So, it's not just cab drivers that ignore the advice to not pass NATO convoys.

[Brent Swain]

One less mercenary murderer for hire. Cry me a river.

[sasquatch2]

Mercenary is a bad word. Security contractor is more accurate.

[Diogenes]

sasquatch2 sasquatch2:

Mercenary is a bad word. Security contractor is more accurate.

linguistics spun = softer. Not accuracy!