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WASHINGTON - The day before four American contractors providing private
security in Iraq were ambushed by a mob and their bodies dragged through
the streets of Fallujah, their immediate supervisor sent an anguished,
urgent email to his seniors at Blackwater Security Consultants, begging for
armored cars.

"Guys are in the field with borrowed stuff and in harm's way," the
supervisor, Tom Powell, wrote in an email sent at 1 a.m. on March 30, 2004.
"Which I'm very uncomfortable with, given the upcoming events, with 5
million Shia moving into Karbala in five days.

"I have requested hard cars from the beginning and from my understanding,
an order is still pending. Why, I ask?...It is my understanding that
someone in Kuwait made a decision to go with Suburbans that are used"
instead. "Bad idea!"

Just how bad an idea became clear the next day.
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