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04-12-2004, 11:38 AM
WASHINGTON — Nine Americans in Iraq might be in enemy hands, senior military officials told Fox News on Monday.
Eight Americans are "unaccounted for" and Thomas Hamill (search), the contractor kidnapped Friday, is known to be a hostage. Hamill was snatched by gunmen who attacked a fuel convoy he was guarding, the latest in a string of kidnappings in Iraq.
Hamill is one of seven American contractors missing; two U.S. soldiers also are unaccounted for.
The whereabouts of all nine became unknown after the attack on the fuel convoy. Defense officials said that while it's possible that they too have been apprehended, there is still no hard evidence of that, nor is there evidence of their remains from the fuel convoy (search) fire.
Hamill and the other missing contractors work for the Houston-based engineering and construction company Kellogg, Brown & Root, a division of Halliburton (search).
His captors threatened to kill him unless U.S. troops ended their assault on the city of Fallujah. The deadline passed Sunday morning with no word on Hamill's fate.
Fox News' Bret Baier, Mike Emanuel and Ian McCaleb contributed to this report.
Eight Americans are "unaccounted for" and Thomas Hamill (search), the contractor kidnapped Friday, is known to be a hostage. Hamill was snatched by gunmen who attacked a fuel convoy he was guarding, the latest in a string of kidnappings in Iraq.
Hamill is one of seven American contractors missing; two U.S. soldiers also are unaccounted for.
The whereabouts of all nine became unknown after the attack on the fuel convoy. Defense officials said that while it's possible that they too have been apprehended, there is still no hard evidence of that, nor is there evidence of their remains from the fuel convoy (search) fire.
Hamill and the other missing contractors work for the Houston-based engineering and construction company Kellogg, Brown & Root, a division of Halliburton (search).
His captors threatened to kill him unless U.S. troops ended their assault on the city of Fallujah. The deadline passed Sunday morning with no word on Hamill's fate.
Fox News' Bret Baier, Mike Emanuel and Ian McCaleb contributed to this report.