Edward Seitz
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Edward Seitz was a member of the American foreign service and a special agent from Michigan killed in Iraq on October 24, 2004, and was the first U.S. diplomat killed in the Iraq War that began in March 2003. Seitz, 41, was killed in a rocket or mortar attack on an American-held base in the so-called Green Zone during the night in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. Ed was a special agent with the US Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service. Testimony to Congress by Secretary of State Rice in January o 2007 made reference to the loss of life by diplomats in Iraq. One other DSS agent was killed in Iraq in 2005.
