De fire sikkerhetsvaktene som ble drept på bestialsk vis i Fallujah sist uke, ble lurt i bakhold av medlemmer av det nye Sivilforsvaret.

..it appears that the four private security contractors killed, burned and mutilated in Falluja last week were in fact lured into a carefully planned ambush by men they believed to be friendly members of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, according to Patrick Toohey, a senior executive at the security firm, Blackwater USA.

Mr. Toohey said Blackwater officials have begun to piece together the events of March 31 in part through interviews with three convoy truck drivers who survived the attack. The drivers and other witnesses, he said, described «a classic, well-planned vehicle ambush» in which the five-vehicle convoy was suddenly blocked from the front and the rear by vehicles.

«The I.C.D.C. blocked the road, and the ambush happened,» he said, referring to the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, a force trained by the United States to guard roads and utilities and to fight insurgents. The assailants first «opened up at point-blank range» on the rear car in the convoy, he said, then fired on the lead vehicle.

«This ambush didn’t even take 60 seconds,» Mr. Toohey said.

Security Firm Says Its Workers Were Lured Into Iraqi Ambush
By DAVID BARSTOW