Brigadier General Wounded in Iraq
Last Edited: Monday, 29 Oct 2007, 11:21 PM EDT
Pentagon officials confirmed to FOX News that Brigadier Gen. Jeffrey J. Dorko, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Division in Baghdad, was one of two soldiers wounded Monday by an improvised explosive device (IED) in northern Baghdad.
The other soldier was treated and released.
Dorko was traveling Monday morning with a private security team belonging to Erinys International when the attack occurred in northern Baghdad.
He is thought to be the highest-ranking U.S. military officer injured in the war. Dorko suffered shrapnel wounds and was taken to Landstuhl Army Hospital in Germany for treatment, his father, Ray Dorko told The Sandusky Register, a MyFoxToledo.com media affiliate.
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Say what you want about Blackwater, Erinys Intl. is a British owned firm, thus they were technically mercenary soldiers, by definition.
2007-11-01
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