Iraqis still busting Blackwaters balls..

September 23, 2007 by Dusty

From the NYT:

The Iraqi government said Saturday that it expects to refer criminal charges to its courts within days in connection with a shooting here by a private American security company, and the Interior Ministry gave new details of six other episodes it is investigating involving the company.

The state minister for national security affairs, Shirwan al-Waili, said the government had received little information from the American side in the early days of a joint investigation of the shooting, which involved the company Blackwater USA and left at least eight Iraqis dead. But he said that the Iraqi investigation was largely completed and that he believed the findings were definitive. “The shots fired on the Iraqis were unjustifiable,” he said. “It was harsh and horrible.”

I thought BushCo had rules that contractors can’t be held responsible to the Iraqi government.. I know the bastards are protected from American prosecution for crimes.

CNN has an article up that reports the Iraqi’s are in possession of a video that shows Blackwater firing on innocents.

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One Response to “Iraqis still busting Blackwaters balls..”

earl bockenfeld on September 23rd, 2007 3:56 pm

From the LA Times article:

“To avoid congestion, we bounced over traffic medians, ran through a police checkpoint and used an offramp to enter the Doura Expressway, which rings eastern and southern Baghdad. As we sped down the wrong side of the freeway, a DynCorp guard tethered to the helicopter warned approaching traffic to get out of the way by throwing plastic water bottles at cars.

The return trip was much the same, save for the Iraqi one of our cars clipped when he walked into the road from between two parked cars.

Back inside the Green Zone, I told several colleagues about not stopping after hitting a pedestrian and then asked if I should report DynCorp’s behavior to the U.S. Embassy. “You got back safely, didn’t you?” came the response. “So what’s your problem?”

Cue the psychos who whine repetitively about the “viciousness” of calling these people “wastewater”…but can’t seem to find the energy to be similarly concerned about the civilians Blackwater is allegedly murdering with zero provocation.

This is going to turn into a really big deal I think. You KNOW that the overwhelming majority of people that live there and experience something like this (possibly every day) are really, really, pissed off. I bet when we do leave-oh, and we WILL leave there, I’m even more sure of that now-there will probably will be a lot of celebrating. More celebration than when we “liberated” them.