Iraq Expands Blackwater Investigation

AP   |   September 22, 2007 02:30 PM


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Iraq's Interior Ministry has expanded its investigation into incidents involving Blackwater USA security guards amid the furor following a shooting that claimed at least 11 lives, a ministry spokesman said Saturday.

Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf said the Moyock, N.C.-based company has been implicated in six other incidents over the past seven months, including a Feb. 7 shooting outside Iraqi state television in Baghdad in which three building guards were fatally shot.

Khalaf said other incidents include: a Sept. 9 shooting in front of Baghdad's municipal government building that killed five people and wounded 10; a Sept. 12 shooting that wounded five on the capital's Palestine Street; a Feb. 4 shooting near the Foreign Ministry, in which Iraqi journalist Hana al-Ameedi died; a May shooting near the Interior Ministry that claimed the life of a passer-by and a Feb. 14 incident in which Blackwater employees allegedly smashed windshields by throwing bottles of ice water at cars.

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- anastasiabeaverhousen See Profile I'm a Fan of anastasiabeaverhousen permalink

Export them to the Hague and do what the cops and prosecutors do best - continue to make deals with the underlings until we get to the top of the turd pile.

Then, import "old sparky" from Florida and fry their asses.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:56 PM on 09/23/2007
- ajax2 See Profile I'm a Fan of ajax2 permalink

Expand it all you want Maliki. Rice is giving the orders and Dems are supporting Blackwater 100%.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:11 PM on 09/23/2007
- farseer See Profile I'm a Fan of farseer permalink

"Opinion Research Business, a highly reputable polling firm in the UK, has just completed a detailed and rigorous survey of Iraqis. In the past, the company's results have been touted by the Bush administration whenever the data looks favorable to the US cause. But their latest report received virtually no attention in the US. Here is the grisly bottom line: more than one million people have been murdered in Iraq since the US invasion, according to the ORB."

from "None Dare Call It Genocide"

article by by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/none-dare-call-genocide.html

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:00 PM on 09/23/2007
- Artesian See Profile I'm a Fan of Artesian permalink

There is a very interesting article written by Eric Margolis, TORONTO SUN - Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007) on Blackwater.
The title: Hired Guns, Loose Cannons!



    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:50 PM on 09/23/2007
- drblack See Profile I'm a Fan of drblack permalink

I still have the video posted by Blackwater employees on the Blackwater blog site of Blackwater mercenaries shooting and bombing Iraqi civillians from a truck. It is disgusting...but they are above the law and have absolute immunity...so the sick people who work for Blackwater figure "hwy not do some killing, and raping?"
Aren't you proud to pay for the slaughter of innocents fellow Americans?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:03 AM on 09/23/2007
- zendem1 See Profile I'm a Fan of zendem1 permalink

Why aren't the democrats kicking Bush's fucking teeth in with this stuff? Why aren't the democrats waving this in front of every neocon member of Congress, and making them run from it like the rats they are? Why isn't Pelosi holding a press conference to talk about it? Why isn't a senate committee investigating Blackwater and the Halliburton Defense contracts?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:57 PM on 09/22/2007
- Maschine See Profile I'm a Fan of Maschine permalink

for an eye opener, swallow this and then passit on

http://iraqforsale.org/

And the Dem's have been pretty silent about this.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:45 AM on 09/23/2007
- Maschine See Profile I'm a Fan of Maschine permalink

I'm, not even from the US and I'm gagging.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:36 AM on 09/23/2007
- stargazer13 See Profile I'm a Fan of stargazer13 permalink

Here here where is the back bone of are supposed
leaders or may be they have dirt on them so there being told to shut up or else what else could keep them so quiet on this and on all the other out rages that have take place MY NEW MOTTO IS
{IN THE FALL FIRE THEM ALL} Time too tear down the old and install the new so to speak just a thought
it has been a while since we cleaned house and the dust bunnies have become unbearable

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:18 AM on 09/23/2007
- accountability See Profile I'm a Fan of accountability permalink

all good questions.
Now if we actually got an answer when we ask them.

I don't even get form letters back.

snail mail deluge.

one day a week where no one spends a thin dime.
Money talks... or swears... cost them money and maybe they will listen.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:20 PM on 09/22/2007
- anastasiabeaverhousen See Profile I'm a Fan of anastasiabeaverhousen permalink

Hear the drum beat? The noose is tightening around the crooked necks of these republicon bastards.....sorry for the mixed metaphor.

The head of blackwater is another crazy christianista who is a LONG time bush supporter. Wonder if he'll ask God's forgiveness when the Hague sentences him to death?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:34 PM on 09/22/2007
- Maschine See Profile I'm a Fan of Maschine permalink

The Irony, whats Bush going to do for his friends now


According to Iranian law , these trigger happy buffons if convicted will HANG, just like Saddam.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:36 PM on 09/22/2007
- dadw5boys See Profile I'm a Fan of dadw5boys permalink

Just what the American Soldiers need a AMERICAN PRIVATE CONTRACTOR BREAKING THE LAW AND BREEDING HATRED!
GREAT HELP THERE BLACK WATER!
But the Black Water makes more money the longer the war last in Iraq.
NO BID CONTRACT AND NO LAWS TO FOLLOW.
Best of both worlds the Sheriff and the Criminal.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:39 PM on 09/22/2007
- DANA66 See Profile I'm a Fan of DANA66 permalink

DADW5BOSYS..........and that is why Blackwater benefits the most from INSECURITY IN IRAQ.........
WHO KNOWS, i heard 2 days ago that they were involved in giving weapons to insurgents.....they could easily also plant bombs and suicide bombers .
Sherlock Holmes always asked WHO BENEFITS FROM THIS CRIME.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:42 PM on 09/23/2007
- springsm See Profile I'm a Fan of springsm permalink

It is high time that the MSM tell us who Blackwater has close ties with and why the WH backed off from bringing some discipline and oversite to this bunch of killers. We don't know the half of it and nobody seems to be willing to really tell it. Blackwater is all over..and bush's hand is in the money pot.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:12 AM on 09/23/2007
- accountability See Profile I'm a Fan of accountability permalink

that's right dad of 5.

You could see how someone might think it was planned this way... gotta keep that money coming in.

These guys are out of control.

Its like a bunch of crazed adolescents playing their last game of cowboys, or cops and robbers before they have to settle down and grow up.

What a crazy fucking world thios prick has given us.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:17 PM on 09/22/2007
- 1man1voicenovote See Profile I'm a Fan of 1man1voicenovote permalink

Boss Hogg Cheney and Sheriff W Cleatus are running this country like a Hazard County Fair.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:06 PM on 09/22/2007
- wm1066 See Profile I'm a Fan of wm1066 permalink

Funny!... but its going to take me all day to scrub that visual out of my brain.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:14 PM on 09/23/2007
- Captain EdwardGraham See Profile I'm a Fan of Captain EdwardGraham permalink



These US troops died for the Kick Ass Guy today:

09/22/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Spc. John J. Young, 24, of Savannah, Ga., died Sept. 21 in Camp Stryker, Iraq, of injuries suffered from a non-combat related incident. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division...

09/22/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Capt.(Dr.) Roselle M. Hoffmaster, 32, of Cleveland, Ohio, died Sept. 20 in Kirkuk, Iraq, of injuries sustained from a non-combat related incident. She was assigned to the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade Combat Team...

09/22/07 MNF: Task Force Lightning Soldier dies in non-combat related incident
A Task Force Lightning Soldier died in a vehicle accident in Diyala province on Saturday.

09/22/07 MNF: Task Force Marne Soldier dies in non-combat related incident
A Task Force Marne Soldier died of non-battle injuries Sept. 21. The name of the Soldier is being withheld pending notification of the next of kin and release by the Department of Defense.

09/22/07 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Pfc. Luigi Marciante Jr., 25, of Elizabeth, N.J., died Sept. 20 in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, of wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8b633f91b2 US Tank "a tank walks on an ied"


    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:02 PM on 09/22/2007
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