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Blackwater’s Pattern of ViolencePosted on Nov 8, 2007More than seven months before Blackwater’s September killing spree, one of the company’s snipers shot and killed three Iraqi guards, who, witnesses said, never opened fire. A brief “investigation” by the State Department, which included no Iraqi witnesses or visits to the scene of the crime, found that the incident “fell within approved rules governing the use of force.”
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By Verne Arnold, November 9, 2007 at 5:06 am Link to this comment
#112369 by Outraged on 11/08 at 9:37 am
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Correct me if Im wrong, the pattern of violence is: Constant, flagrant, covered up, questionable and everywhere.
Nuts! You are full of…..................correctness!
Report thisBy Andrushka, November 8, 2007 at 12:50 pm Link to this comment
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Pray, tell who are the terrorists now? Al Queada or Blackwater? I really tend to believe it’s the latter and Bush and Cheney their commanders
Report thisBy felicity, November 8, 2007 at 12:03 pm Link to this comment
If I didn’t know better? We are doing all we can, world-wide, to alienate the rest of the world. We seem to be committed to increasing the ranks of terrorists. Could the ‘launch’ of the $100 billion global for-profit military industry have anything to do with all this? It quacks, it waddles - must be a duck.
Report thisBy Outraged, November 8, 2007 at 10:37 am Link to this comment
Correct me if I’m wrong, the “pattern of violence” is: Constant, flagrant, covered up, questionable and everywhere.
Report thisBy QuyTran, November 8, 2007 at 10:21 am Link to this comment
Aren’t they human beings or aliens ? Only Bush/Cheney
Report thisand their organized crimes can answer.
By Don Stivers, November 8, 2007 at 9:51 am Link to this comment
If our present government approves of murder, doesn’t that set them up for charges of war crimes. Sort of like Hitler saying it was okay for his minions to murder and kill Jews. Anybody see any connection there? Our own State Department says it is okay to shoot people with no provocation at all.
What a bunch of sleezoids we have running our government. And our newly elected Democratic Congress does absolutely NOTHING about it. absolutely NOTHING!
Report thisBy rodney, November 8, 2007 at 8:39 am Link to this comment
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Well I expect Blackwater to get away with war crimes because we have a Commander-In-Chief that also committed them and has gotten away with them.
Report thisBy Aaron R. Linderman, November 8, 2007 at 8:05 am Link to this comment
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I don’t trust these reports very much. First, because they’re almost always eye witnesses. Police investigators today place very little credibility in such folks. Not because they’re lying, but because people often think they’ve seen things in fact they haven’t. (We saw this in the case of Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot on the London underground.)
The second reason I pause to pass judgement is that Blackwater stands by their conduct. In fact, this is why the ASKED for cameras in all of their vehicles, a request the State Department refused. (See http://blackblawg.blogspot.com/2007/10/state-department-denied-blackwaters.html.) So if Blackwater wants there to be a video record of their actions, they’re willing throw down cards with anyone.
Finally, a word on Blackwater’s contract with the State Department: the contract (about 1,000 pages in length) prohibits Blackwater from discussing their operations. Now this tends to make for some pretty one-sided analysis. I don’t care if you’re a journalist, a police investigator or an intelligence collector, they all want ALL the information from ALL sides. The State Department has arranged things so that can’t happen.
Report thisBy waxman, November 8, 2007 at 6:39 am Link to this comment
HURRY UP AND APPROVE THE 1.5 BILLION FOR THEM BEFORE THEY RUN OUT OF AMMO…...
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