Iraq says 4 US contractors detained, not 5

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government spokesman says four Americans, not five, have been detained in an investigation into the killing last month of a U.S. contractor in the Green Zone.

Ali al-Dabbagh says four Americans and one Iraqi were picked up Wednesday during a raid on the Corporate Training Unlimited house. He says the raid was ordered after Iraqi security forces received information that a suspect involved in last month’s stabbing death of contractor Jim Kitterman might be there.

Al-Dabbagh says the raiding party found the contractors’ weapons permits and operating license had expired and took them into custody.

It was unclear if the purported suspect in Kitterman’s death was in the house when the raid occurred.