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...April 20, he and seven other Apollo contractors headed out in a three-car convoy to collect an ERSM employee from the airport. In the lead, driving an unarmored BMW sedan, was James Yeager, an American weapons instructor. His passengers were two former British soldiers, Stef Surette and Mark (who did not want his surname used). The middle vehicle was the company's heavily armored Mercedes, used for transporting VIPs. It held two former British soldiers: Simon Merry at the wheel, and Ian Harris riding shotgun. Bringing up the rear of the convoy was Ahmelman, driving a second BMW; with...
...After weaving through the Baghdad traffic, the three cars came to a halt in gridlock on Route Irish. It was a few minutes before noon. American troops had blocked the road to clear away the remains of a car damaged by a bomb. Civilian vehicles between the convoy and the roadblock turned off to find alternative routes. The security men, wearing white Arab robes, sat quietly in the line of traffic. Then team leader Johnson climbed out of Ahmelman's car and began firing in the air to warn other vehicles to stay clear - an act which clearly identified...
...about 1 km short of the U.S. roadblock. There they remained for over 10 minutes, talking nervously on their radios. Suddenly, to their right, a white Chevrolet SUV with blacked-out windows sped along a slip road, made a U turn, and stopped about 200 m away, facing the convoy. From its passenger window, a belt-fed machinegun opened fire. The first bullets announced themselves with a puff of dust beside Yeager's vehicle, then a burst hit Ahmelman in the thigh. The videotape from the dashboard camera recorded the sound of bullets hitting the car, Ahmelman crying out, then...
...little power and undrinkable tap water, so supplies (generators, meals ready to eat, Doral cigarettes) must be delivered to the Corps each day--as often as several times a day--from a staging area 80 miles up the Mississippi. When I traveled with Thursday morning's eight-vehicle convoy, we started two hours late because the Corps workers each had to get tetanus and hepatitis shots before re-entering the suppurating city. Once under way, we had to stop twice: once to wait for a flatbed with a fan boat to join the convoy and again because...
...Cost of a 10-bus convoy Washington sent to New Orleans last week to pick up Hurricane Katrina evacuees...