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Five American security contractors have been detained in connection with the killing of another American contractor inside Baghdad's Green Zone, sources told CNN on Saturday. James Kitterman's bound and blindfolded body was found last month in a car in the heavily protected district. The 60-year-old Houston, Texas, resident owned a construction company that operated in Iraq.

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Five American security contractors were detained in connection with the killing of another American contractor last month inside Baghdad's Green Zone, sources with knowledge of the investigation told CNN on Saturday. James Kitterman's bound and blindfolded body was found in a car in the heavily protected district. The 60-year-old Houston, Texas, resident owned a construction company that operated in Iraq.

It is one of those long-established notions that many stock market investors just assume is true. It goes like this. Whenever a corporation has bad news for its shareholders, it usually will wait to make the announcement until after the stock market closes for the day, or at the end of the week

Five American security contractors were detained in connection with the killing of another American contractor last month inside Baghdad's Green Zone, sources with knowledge of the investigation told CNN on Saturday. James Kitterman's bound and blindfolded body was found in a car in the heavily protected district. The 60-year-old Houston, Texas, resident owned a construction company that operated in Iraq.

NEW YORK--The much-anticipated Palm Pre may have gotten almost as much hype as the Apple iPhone over the past six months, but its opening day fell short of the attention iPhones grabbed on their first days. The Sprint store in the Flatiron building on Manhattan's Fifth Ave. received nearly 200 Palm Pres for the launch.(Credit: Marguerite Reardon/CNET) Unlike the huge crowds of people that formed long lines and camped out in front of Apple and AT&T stores days in advance of the iPhone's launch, crowds for the Palm Pre were much smaller and tended to arrive in the morning just before stores opened. Neither Sprint nor Palm have released official figures about how many devices they hoped to sell on the Pre's first day. But Sprint representatives had been trying to downplay expectations for iPhone-like crowds ahead of the launch. Sprint spokesman Mark Elliott told The New York Times earlier this week that the company not only didn't expect long lines for the Pre at its 1,100 stores, but