Contractor Casualties

Cote Family told another body found in iraq
The family of Jonathon M. Cote, the 25-year-old Iraq hostage, has been notified by
U.S. officials that another body was been found in Iraq. Francis L. Cote, the father
of the former Amherst resident, is reporting on the family's Web site, freecote.com,
that U.S. officials visited his family on Saturday and informed them that a sixth body
has been recovered in the Basra area of Southern Iraq. "The body will be flown to
Dover Air Force Base just as the 5 other bodies of US Citizens recovered in March,"
reads a blog posted by the father on their Web site. "There the body will be
identified and an autopsy will be performed," the blog reads. "At this point we have
nothing else to report." The father asked that the community continue to pray for
his son. Jonathon Cote is a U.S. Army veteran who was working in Iraq as a private
security contractor when he and four co-workers were abducted Nov. 16, 2006.

William Juneau
DynCorp International says William Juneau was killed Monday when his military
convoy was hit by an improvised explosive device about 50 miles outside Baghdad.
The 36-year-old Rush City, Minn., man was helping to train the Iraqi police service
as an employee of DynCorp, which has a contract with the U.S. State Department.

Darryl de Thierry
Darryl de Thierry, 34, had just returned to work in the war-torn country when his
armoured vehicle ran over a landmine on Tuesday.

Teina Ngamata
Teina Ngamata, an ex-soldier killed in Baghdad last August. Mr de Thierry served
alongside Mr Ngamata in the New Zealand Army and the men died in similar ways -
a blast caused by an improvised explosive device planted under their convoys.

Steve Gilchrist
former Waikato man Steve Gilchrist who died in separate attacks in Iraq last year.

Ron Zimmerman
37, a former eastern Indiana police officer. Zimmerman quit his police job in March
to join DynCorp International, which has a contract with the State Department to
train police in anti-drug activities.

Jerry Palinski
42, of Dupont, Wash., died when the vehicle in which he was riding was struck by an
improvised explosive on May 3. Palinsky was employed as a security specialist by
Cochise Consultancy Inc. of Tampa, Fla.

Carey Robinson,
39, of Orlando, Fla., died Monday. He was working as a security specialist for EOD
Technology Inc. of Knoxville, Tenn.   The company is one of the contractors working
to clear munitions through an Army program based at Redstone Arsenal in
Huntsville. Thirty-one contractors working with the

Edward Cunahan   June 19, 2006
Tetra Tech 41 from the North Pole, Alaska, was killed in a work related accident.

Frans Robert Brand    August 28, 2007
Frans Robert Brand was killed Tuesday when the vehicle he was riding in was
struck by a bomb. Brand worked as a security specialist for Armor Group Iraq,
headquartered in London. That brings to 39 the number of contractors killed while
working for the Huntsville center's Coalition Munitions Clearance Program since
September 2003.

Raymond Moore 40   September 7, 2007
who was protecting United States government munitions experts, died on
September 7 when the vehicle he was travelling in was blown up by a roadside
bomb near Numaniyah, southern Iraq.
He had received a bravery award for helping rescue US soldiers after a suicide
bombing earlier this year

Mark Barry Metherell
Brooks Street in Laguna Beach was lined with flags fluttering in the warm breeze
Saturday afternoon. They were placed there by neighbors in memory of resident
and U.S. military contractor Mark Barry Metherell, who was killed Thursday in
Baghdad by a roadside bomb, according to family and neighbors.
Metherell, 39, was working on training efforts with the Iraqi forces, said father-in-law
Peter Ochs. The former Navy Seal would work about two months in Iraq at a time,
and would come home in between to spend time with his wife and daughter.

Joshua Munns
ANDERSON – The body of a 25-year-old private security contractor killed while
being held hostage in Iraq has been returned home to Northern California. Joshua
Munns' funeral is scheduled for Saturday in his hometown of Anderson. A burial with
military honors is planned at the Northern California Veterans Cemetery in Igo.
The former Marine was among six contractors kidnapped more than a year ago in
two separate incidents in Iraq. His body was recovered last month.
Munns' body was flown to Sacramento International Airport on Tuesday. It was given
a motorcycle escort to a funeral home in Palo Cedro, east of Redding.
Munns' father, Mark, says he has been told his son was beaten to death while his
hands were tied behind his back.

Michael Vinay Bhatia
A 31-year-old Defense Department contractor from Medway was killed by a
roadside bomb in Afghanistan on Wednesday.
Michael Vinay Bhatia, originally from Medway and a 1999 Brown University
graduate, was killed along with two soldiers when their Humvee was struck by a
bomb just north of the Afghani city of Khost, near the Pakistan border. Two other
soldiers were badly wounded in the blast, according to Reuters.
Bhatia was hired by defense contractor BEA Systems of Rockville, Md., in
September as a social scientist assigned to the U.S. Army's human terrain system
program, said the company's director of communications, Scott Fazekas. The
program is designed to help Army personnel better understand the socio-economic
characteristics of the areas in which troops are deployed.

Steve Farley
A bomb in Sadr City, Iraq claimed the lives of four Americans, including one
Oklahoma man. Steven Farley, 57, was in Iraq to help the people of Sadr City
rebuild their government.
After completing his service time with the Army, Farley joined the Navy, and as a
civilian, he answered the call again when the government needed help working with
the Iraqis.
Brett Farley, Steven Farley's son, has fond memories of his father. He said he
wasn't surprised when his father answered the call last year to go to Iraq to help
teach the leaders of Sadr City how to govern.
"He trained us in terms of honor, integrity, love of your family, love of your country...
and he was the best father a kid could ask for," Brett Farley said.
According to Brett Farley, his father was well aware of the dangers involved with the
job.
"He told us just last week he was informed that he had a million dollar price tag on
his head and that obviously didn't sit well with us," Brett Farley said. "The same day,
he had three sniper shots hit his truck."
Steven Farley said Sadr City leaders were preparing to meet Tuesday inside a
building in Sadr City when a bomb went off, killing Steven Farley, another civilian
and two American soldiers.

Justin D English
SPRINGDALE - A former Springdale firefighter and emergency medical technician
died Monday, a week after arriving in Iraq to work as an independent contractor
providing fire and emergency services.

Justin D. English, 25, resigned in good standing with the Springdale Fire
Department in June to work for Wackenhut Corp. in Iraq.

He was on his way to a permanent post at a base in Mosul, about 250 miles
northwest of Baghdad, when his military convoy was ambushed by an improvised
explosive device on the roadway.

"They were in an armored car when the IED went off," said Janet English, Justin's
aunt, as she fought back sobs in a telephone interview. "He had just been there
over a week. He didn't even have time to send us an e-mail address so we could
keep in touch with him."

English arrived in Iraq on June 30 for U.S. military duties through Wackenhut.