There is a certain amount of risk involved in Iraq!
Bear this information in mind....working in Iraq has some risks that transcend those normally encountered when working overseas. Make sure you are properly insured for all contingencies....death, dismemberment, permanent disability...longterm health care...medical repatriation. If the employer does not do that....I personally would pass the offer of employment along to someone else.
Foreign contractors, too, are often targeted by anti-U.S. guerrillas. At least 232 American civilian security and reconstruction contractors were killed in Iraq up to the end of 2004, according to the Washington-based Brookings Institution.
The Blackwater employees killed Saturday were in the last vehicle in a four-vehicle convoy and were traveling to Hillah from Baghdad, Callahan said. A foreign security official said they were in a black Chevrolet Suburban. The road south traverses an area known as the "Triangle of Death" because of the frequency of insurgent attacks.
"I can confirm that two American employees of Blackwater Security were killed early yesterday afternoon on the road to Hillah when an IED exploded next to their vehicle, Callahan said Sunday.
An IED is a military acronym for an improvised explosive device, or homemade bomb.
Officials at Blackwater's headquarters in Moyock, North Carolina, could not be reached for comment.
In March 2004, four Blackwater employees were killed in the turbulent city of Fallujah, and two of the corpses were hung from a bridge, triggering a bloody three-week siege of the restive Sunni Muslim city west of Baghdad soon afterward.