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BUFFALO, N.Y. — A body recovered in Iraq was identified Wednesday as that of Jonathon Cote, an Army veteran who was working as a contractor when he was kidnapped more than a year ago.
Cote’s father said on his blog that his 25-year-old son’s body was positively identified at Dover Air Force Base after being recovered Saturday.
Jonathon Cote, of the Buffalo suburb of Getzville, was working for Crescent Security Group when he was kidnapped with three other Americans and an Austrian on Nov. 16, 2006. In all, six contractors were kidnapped in two separate incidents.
Their case received attention in March when the severed fingers of five of the men were sent to the U.S. military in Iraq. Their bodies were later recovered.
