BAGHDAD — An American financial analyst working for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has died of his wounds from an Easter rocket attack against the heavily fortified Green Zone, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Paul Converse, 56, was hit when rockets fired by suspected Shiite militia fighters rained down on the U.S.- protected area Sunday.
His parents, Dick and Leona Converse of Corvallis, Ore., told reporters they learned Sunday that their son had been wounded and likely wouldn’t survive. On Monday, two officers from the Oregon Army National Guard arrived to inform them of his death.
U.S. officials trying to identify three bodies
WASHINGTONAuthorities are awaiting identification of the remains of three bodies in Iraq, a U.S. law enforcement official said Tuesday, a day after the remains of two kidnapped contractors were identified.
Four other kidnapped Western contractors have been missing for more than a year. This month, the severed fingers of several men were sent to the U.S. military in Iraq. Several relatives had taken that as a hopeful sign, but hopes dimmed Monday when the FBI said the remains of Ronald Withrow of Roaring Springs, Texas, and John Roy Young of Kansas City, Mo., had been identified.
A U.S. law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that three other bodies are awaiting testing. The Associated Press
