Former Seattle police officer killed in Iraq (Mercenary)

[saigon68]

Former Seattle police officer killed in Iraq

Thursday, October 5, 2006

Associated Press

http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_100406WABofficerkilled_EL.6dfe3be.html




Photograph of Major Guy "Bear" Barattieri, taken prior to the liberation of Iraq, early March 2003.

SEATTLE - A former police officer and West Point graduate who was moved by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to return to the military has died less than a week after arriving in Iraq, friends said.

Circumstances of the death of Army Special Forces Reserve Maj. Guy R. Barattieri, 36, a native of Cincinnati, have not been disclosed, but the Washington National Guard on Thursday said he died in Iraq late Monday. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer cited unconfirmed reports that he was killed by a roadside bomb.

Barattieri was in Iraq as a contractor, not on a military deployment, the National Guard said. The Seattle Times reported he arrived in Iraq on Saturday.

"He was the best of the best," his stepmother, Barbara Barattieri told The Times by telephone Wednesday from her home in Cincinnati. "We are just having a hard time dealing with this. He was one of these guys this could never happen to."

BUT BUT it certainly "HAPPENED TO HIM"

I wonder how much BlackWater was paying him?

[BrotherBuzz]

1. The "Best of the Best" abandoned his Brothers to chase the big bucks...

Cynical, I am. Nevertheless, rest in peace my ex-Brother in Arms. Godspeed to his family.

[maddezmom]

2. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2546921