Jubilant residents dragged the charred corpses of four American contractors through the streets Wednesday and hanged them from the bridge spanning the Euphrates River. Five American soldiers died in a roadside bombing nearby. The White House blamed terrorists and remnants of Saddam Hussein’s former regime for the “horrific attacks” on the civilian contractors. “There are some that are doing everything they can to try to prevent” a June 30 transfer of sovereignty to an Iraqi government, White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters. The four contract workers were killed in a rebel ambush of their SUVs in Fallujah, a Sunni Triangle city about 35 miles west of Baghdad and scene of some of the worst violence on both sides of the conflict since the beginning of the American occupation a year ago. Full Story
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