About that New Zealander killed in Iraq (who lived in Brisbane with a wife and three kids, and served in the Australian Army):
He is the fourth Australian working as a private contractor in Iraq to die.I have no sympathy for these mercenaries, but I wonder how many people at your local shopping mall could tell you how many Aussies have died in Iraq?
Jon Hadaway, 34, of Melbourne died in Germany in August this year from injuries he sustained in a bombing, while Wayne Schulz, 34, of Queensland died in June when the armoured vehicle he was travelling in was destroyed by a bomb, 300km north of Baghdad.
Chris Ahmelman, 34, of Queensland was killed last year with two others in an ambush by insurgents on their way to Baghdad airport.
