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Reid Calls for Probe into Death of Adam Hermanson

HeadlineSep 15, 2009

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has asked the State Department and Pentagon to investigate the death of Adam Hermanson, the twenty-five-year-old private security contractor who died after being electrocuted in his dormitory in Baghdad. Hermanson worked for the firm Triple Canopy. Reid said he wants to know whether Hermanson’s death resulted from faulty electrical work. Visit democracynow.org to listen or watch our recent interview with Adam Hermanson’s mother and brother.

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