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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. forces shot and killed a civilian contract truck driver at Camp Anaconda, a huge air base north of Baghdad, the military said Saturday.
Lt. Cmdr. Bill Speaks said in Baghdad that the death Monday resulted from ``an escalation of force incident,'' which typically means a driver approaching a checkpoint did not respond to military orders to approach slowly and stop. Speaks did not identify the dead contractor.
Melissa Norcross, a spokeswoman for KBR, said the shooting was under investigation and the company would not release the name of the driver or a second person in the truck who was wounded in the shooting. The Walker-Martin Funeral Home in Chesaning, Mich., posted an obituary on its Web site Saturday saying that a man named Donald Tolfree of nearby Owosso, Mich., had been killed Monday in Balad, Iraq, where he was employed as a civilian contractor.
Camp Anaconda is located near Balad, about 50 miles north of Baghdad. |