Contractors Charged in Iraq Kidnapping

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Contractors Charged in Iraq Kidnapping
December 15, 2008
Associated Press

LAFAYETTE, La. - A federal grand jury has indicted three military contractors on charges they kidnapped a foreign national at gunpoint while working at an air base in Iraq, prosecutors announced Monday.

The three employees of two Department of Defense contractors were freed on $100,000 bond last week after pleading not guilty to charges that include conspiracy, kidnapping, assault and witness tampering.

Three federal marshals had traveled to Kuwait to bring the contractors back to the U.S., according to a statement by U.S. Attorney Donald Washington's office.

The indicted men were identified as Ronald Broussard, Jr., 42, of Lafayette, La.; Alan Beaty, 35, of Oneida, Tenn.; and Robert Bowlin, Sr., 40, of Brandon, Miss.

The indictment accuses the men of conspiring to kidnap a man who worked at Camp Al-Asad Air Base to question him about the sale of liquor in September. The contractors allegedly threatened to harm the man if he reported the incident.


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