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Arkansan Killed in Suicide Bombing in Iraq

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Updated: January 7, 2009
The identities of the two Americans killed in yesterdays car bombing have been released. 35 year old Todd James Venette from White Hall died Saturday in the attack in Central Baghdad. He was a veteran of the United States Marines who served as a firefighter and paramedic in Russellville before taking a job with C.T.U. Consulting Management, a private U.S. security contractor. 27 year old Brandon James Thomas from Salt Lake City, Utah was also killed. The car exploded in Tahrir Square, also known as Liberation Square, just across the Tigris River from the Green Zone.

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