Iraq Authorizes Raids By Security Forces On Blackwater, Other War Contractors

New York Times:

The Iraqi interior minister said Wednesday that he would authorize raids by his security forces on Western security firms to ensure that they were complying with tightened licensing requirements on guns and other weaponry, setting up the possibility of violent confrontations between the Iraqis and heavily armed Western guards.

The tightening of the requirements followed a shooting in September by one of those firms, Blackwater, that Iraqi authorities said left 17 Iraqis dead.

Read the whole story: New York Times

Comments

[flydoghead]

07:49 PM on 11/09/2007

Looks like little David is kicking Goliath's ass, again.

[Driver125]

10:40 AM on 11/09/2007

So what happens if the Great Decider and Darth Cheney decide that the country really needs four more years of their personal supervision? Where does Blackwater stand--behind those that pay them or behind the Constitution?

[fourex]

12:59 AM on 11/09/2007

Blackwater is never unprovoked. They were abused at childhood.

[OpusIsUnderTheBed]

05:11 PM on 11/08/2007

Anybody got the authority to drug test all Blackwater gunmen on the ground in Iraq?

[HeyLindsey]

05:04 PM on 11/08/2007

Can we get out of this mess? Is it too late, have these goons already taken over our country (and the world)?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoCVP7sRq_8


This guy (Van Jones) is inspirational and I would like to think that it's not too late, but I don't see anybody talking about this stuff in face-to-face real life.

[Economike]

04:25 PM on 11/08/2007

America, the kind of place where any kid can grow up to start his own army.

[sugarmoes]

04:13 PM on 11/08/2007

ME KARY BIG GUN!

can bush be president of iraq when he's done here?

heckuva job bushit!

[Sumocat]

03:40 PM on 11/08/2007

U.S. military vs. Iraqi insurgents vs. Iraqi security vs. U.S. mercenaries. Now that's progress!

[FlowerGirl]

02:33 PM on 11/08/2007

Kill crazy punnks can't bring security to asnything. Get rid of those punks. Annd the cur dog who sent them there.

[StillAmused]

01:23 PM on 11/08/2007

You couldn't INVENT this insane shit!

As we speak, a cadre of drooling neocons is in secret meetings with Darth Cheney, screaming at each other in a heated debate over which side we should support... our own puppet Iraqi government or our own killer mercenaries.

Maybe, when the end of this nightmare comes, it'll include a wave of uncontrolled laughter from the mob surrounding the gallows in Lincoln Park... just before the trap is sprung.

[thegreatgiginthesky]

01:22 PM on 11/08/2007

So let me get this straight -

We invade Iraq to free them from "Big Bad Saddam"

We then disband the army after which chaos and anarchy follow.

We hold a rigged election which allows us to set up a puppet government

The puppet government then stabs us in the back by authorizing security forces that were trained by us to attack war contractors that we hired.

Mere words cannot even begin to explain how fucked up that is.

[Horst]

12:44 PM on 11/08/2007

Why are Americans so dumb? First they go head first into the Iraqi meat grinder....and then blame the people they sent there. Meanwhile they worry about American Idol and Paul McCartney's divorce. Keep buying those Escalades...

[getoffmedz]

12:42 PM on 11/08/2007

Blackwater and others are under contract by the State Department which is part of the Executive Branch. You know, the White House.

Another fine mess this completely insane administration has caused. Now, watch these assholes take NO responsibility!

[Tom95134]

12:33 PM on 11/08/2007

Blackwater = Brownshirts. And if you're too young to rememebr what the Brownshirts were... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung

[Hallucinocynic]

12:33 PM on 11/08/2007

Not to big a stretch to conclude that US troops might one day be shooting at Blackwater contractors...