Iraqi immigrant dies after returning to Iraq to translate for U.S. Army

[Judi Lynn]

Iraqi immigrant dies after returning to Iraq to translate for U.S. Army
By Adrienne Schwisow, Associated Press, 4/9/2004 02:53



STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) Rita and Emad Mikha were married two weeks after their eyes locked at the Baghdad party where they were introduced in 1988.

The couple started a new life together in America. Rita Mikha marveled at how her husband became a best friend to their three children and how he obsessed over building a better life.
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Emad Mikha, 44, died in the Iraqi town of Muqdadiyah, about 70 miles northeast of Baghdad. He left his family and job as a supermarket butcher last year to work with U.S. troops in his native country. Before going, he told his co-workers he would be stationed in the desert away from the fighting, and be brought in to assist in prisoner interrogations.

Neither the Defense Department nor the contractor who employed him, Titan National Security Solutions in San Diego, would discuss his death Wednesday. His body is in Denver for an autopsy and could be there until next week, Mikha said she was told.
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http://www.boston.com/dailynews/100/nation/Iraqi_immigrant_dies_after_ret:.shtml

[drfemoe]

1. kick

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[ConcernedCanuk]

2. Hmmm - another story with a bit of a smell

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Found another story on this

Michigan man dies in Iraq

A 44-year-old Sterling Heights man has died in Iraq. United States officials say Emad Mikha died of natural causes on April 3rd.

He was doing civilian work for the Army in Muqdadiyah when he died. He had been in Iraq five months.

Mikha's family says he was healthy before he left for Iraq. They say that makes it hard for them to believe he died of natural causes.

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The link was broken in Google, I had to go into the cache to find it . .

That always make me wonder . .