Contractors’ families: ‘They left them to die’

Their voices quavering, a widow, daughter and mothers of four defense contractors who were lynched in Iraq blasted the company they say left their men to die.

Military veterans Wesley Batalona, Scott Helventson, Michael Teague and Jerry Zovka were new to Iraq when their company, Blackwater USA, assigned them to escort a convoy designated to pick up kitchen equipment in March 2004.