Tales of Blackwater

Oh, the stories from Iraq. They just fit right in with the halloween season...tales of horror -

Blackwater contractors running amok on American soldiers

This is how the Bush Administration supports the troops -- by allowing Blackwater's thugs to intimidate them: "The colonel was furious. "Can you believe it? They actually drew their weapons on U.S. soldiers." He was describing a 2006 car accident, in which an SUV full of Blackwater operatives had crashed into a U.S. Army Humvee on a street in Baghdad's Green Zone. The colonel, who was involved in a follow-up investigation and spoke on the condition he not be named, said [...]

Let's journey over to Daily Kos, where a diarist really tears into this story -

US Soldiers Have a New Enemy: Mercenaries Paid With Your Tax Dollars

...There’s a bunch of damn serious problems here.  Do Blackwater mercenaries have a reputation with American soldiers of being too crazy to deal with?  Are American soldiers told to defer to Blackwater mercenaries?  If you watch this video from the battle of Najaf, you see American soldiers in a firefight taking orders from civilian-clad Blackwater mercenaries.  And why the hell would Blackwater mercenaries even feel the need to [...]

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Peace Out: Blackwater Splits With 'Peace and Stability' Trade Group

Mired in controversy after its operators killed 17 Iraqi civilians, Blackwater quietly dissociated itself with the International Peace Operations Association, an organization that reps for the private military industry's biggest players [...]

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