Halliburton contractor killed by U.S. forces in Iraq

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The shooting Monday of a civilian contract truck driver for KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, is under investigation by the company and by the U.S. Army.

The U.S. military confirmed on Saturday that American forces shot and killed the truck driver at Camp Anaconda, an air base about 42 miles north of Baghdad.

A spokeswoman for KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton formerly known as Kellogg, Brown & Root, said the shooting was under investigation.

Melissa Norcross, the KBR spokeswoman, said the company was not releasing the name of the dead driver or a second truck driver who was wounded "to protect the individuals' privacy."

"A KBR truck driver was fatally shot, and another wounded, by U.S. military personnel on the evening of February 5, 2007, at an entry control point just outside of Camp Anaconda in Balad, Iraq. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of the truck driver who was killed," Norcross wrote in an e-mail.