Story is that they arrived in the convoy at outskirts of town where the Iraqi 'police' (security soldiers), in uniform, were to meet them and guide them thru town. All seemed legitimate except the police led them down a different road to the main one they should have used & the lead Iraqi guard escort vehicles then blocked the road in front while people appeared from the sides.

The Blackwater men had realised something was wrong & had turned their vehicle around but copped 3 grenades. Three died almost instantly & a 4th crawled out of the vehicle but was beaten to death with rocks, by a gathering mob. Then the SUV was torched etc: etc: etc:.

Seems the US troops who have gone into Falluja have been given the green light to let the inhabitents know - painfully - that US troops can also kill mercilessly & mutilate corpses.

Doug M