
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — An Army Reserve captain who was working to help Iraqis start a beehive venture was among five Americans killed when his meeting was ambushed by gunmen dressed as U.S. troops, relatives said.
Capt. Brian Scott Freeman, 31, died Jan. 20 when his meeting area in the Shiite holy city of Karbala came under attack by mortar and small-arms fire, the Defense Department said Jan. 22. Defense officials did not immediately return calls seeking comment about the conditions surrounding the attack.
Freeman was assigned to the 412th Civil Affairs Battalion, based in Whitehall, Ohio, defense officials said.
Freeman was born in...