INTO THE CAULDRON.

Reports that four American civilians who were members of the company Blackwater USA were murdered in Fallujah, Iraq by insurgents. Murder of Wesley Batalona, Michael Teague, Scott Helvenston, and Jerry Zovko, nonmilitary personnel who were hired by the Pentagon to provide security in Iraq; How a mob burned the dead and committed other atrocities to the bodies of the men; Efforts of members of the Iraqi security force to disperse the mob and claim the mutilated bodies; Possibility that the U.S. will give Iraqi authorities power in the form of in interim government by June 30th; Confusion regarding the identity of the killers. INSET: The Mounting Toll.