The first clash took place when the convoy ran into the roadblock.
The convoy ran into rebels, and Khamis was killed in a gunbattle.
A 10-ton wrecker in the convoy ran out of fuel.
On her next trip to France, in a tank-landing ship, her convoy ran aground on Omaha Beach, where she was carried ashore by a sailor.
State Department reports show that Blackwater security personnel have fired their weapons and used force on at least 56 diplomatic convoy runs in 2007.
Another roadside bomb in Diwaniya detonated near a private security convoy run by Hart, a Cyprus-registered company with headquarters in London.
The police officers assigned to protect the convoy ran out of ammunition during the assault on Saturday, said one of the dozens of survivors, Vivek Bajpai, a businessman and a member of the Indian National Congress Party.
On April 12, the convoy ran into a Viet Minh ambush 600 yards from the Muong Khoua strong point.
At one point the lead car in a convoy runs over a person, who's kicked brutally to the curb and lies still.
After the U.S. agreed to provide protection for convoys of oil tankers, the first convoy ran into trouble when the U.S.-flagged supertanker Bridgeton struck a mine that blew a large hole in its hull.
