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Budding scientists can obtain phrasing tips from Unity Resources, a private security company that is doing contract work for USAID in Iraq. Yesterday, cowboy mercenaries working for Unity shot off 19 rounds into a car, killing two Iraqi Christian women driving home from work.

According to Unity’s chief operating officer, Michael Priddin, the women drove up quickly and “failed to stop despite escalation of warnings” including “hand signals and a signal flare.”

“Finally shots were fired at the vehicle and it stopped in close vicinity to the security team,” Priddin said in a telephone interview. “We deeply regret the firing of shots.”
–Joshua Partlow and Sudarshan Raghavan, “Guards Kill Two Women In Iraq”, Washington Post, October 10, 2007