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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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 Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:42 pm Post subject: F.B.I. Says Blackwater murdered 14 Iraqis |
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 � Federal agents investigating the Sept. 16 episode in which Blackwater security personnel shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians have found that at least 14 of the shootings were unjustified and violated deadly-force rules in effect for security contractors in Iraq, according to civilian and military officials briefed on the case.
The F.B.I. investigation into the shootings in Baghdad is still under way, but the findings, which indicate that the company�s employees recklessly used lethal force, are already under review by the Justice Department.
Prosecutors have yet to decide whether to seek indictments, and some officials have expressed pessimism that adequate criminal laws exist to enable them to charge any Blackwater employee with criminal wrongdoing. Spokesmen for the Justice Department and the F.B.I. declined to discuss the matter. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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Immunity is kind of hard to get around.
Why does America need mercs to fight its wars? |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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Immunity is kind of hard to get around.
Why does America need mercs to fight its wars? |
It is a way to escalate the conflict without a public debate. Also, this war is little more than mass corporate welfare now. |
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Pluto
Joined: 19 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
Immunity is kind of hard to get around.
Why does America need mercs to fight its wars? |
Yeah, I know. I always thought it was the Marines' job to protect embassies and dimplomats abroad. Why they gave no-bid contracts for that is beyond me. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Why they gave no-bid contracts for that is beyond me. |
If I were the cynical type, I'd say it was so certain members of the government would have their own private army not subject to Congressional over-sight. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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Witnesses Testify In Blackwater Lawsuit
By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury investigating Blackwater Worldwide heard witnesses Tuesday as a private lawsuit accused the government contractor's bodyguards of ignoring orders and abandoning their posts shortly before taking part in a Baghdad shooting that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead.
Filed this week in U.S. District Court in Washington, the civil complaint also accuses North Carolina-based Blackwater of failing to give drug tests to its guards in Baghdad � even though an estimated one in four of them was using steroids or other "judgment altering substances."
A Blackwater spokeswoman said Tuesday its employees are banned from using steroids or other enhancement drugs but declined to comment on the other charges detailed in the 18-page lawsuit.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071127/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/blackwater_prosecutions
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