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WASHINGTON (AP) - Authorities identified the remains of two more
U.S. contractors kidnapped in Iraq and are awaiting forensic
testing on remains of a third body, the FBI said Thursday.
FBI spokesman Richard Kolko identified the two men as Paul
Johnson-Reuben of Minneapolis and Joshua Munns of Redding, Calif.
They were among six Western contractors kidnapped in Iraq more than
a year ago.
The case received attention earlier this month when the severed
fingers of five of the men were sent to the U.S. military in Iraq.
Several relatives had taken the discovery of the fingers 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.
The other men still missing are Jonathon Cote, of Getzville,
N.Y. and Bert Nussbaumer of Vienna, Austria.
Munns' mother said Tuesday that she lost hope that her son would
be found alive after hearing that the remains of Withrow and Young
had been identified.
"I think at this point, because they already killed the others,
is going to be probably dead as well, that's just a mom's
intuition," said Jackie Stewart, a resident of Ridgefield, Wash.
Johnson-Reuben and Munns were guards for Crescent Security Group
when men in Iraqi police uniforms ambushed their convoy near the
Kuwaiti border on Nov.
