The colonel was furious.
“Can you believe it?
They actually drew their weapons on U.S. soldiers.”
He was describing a 2006 car accident, in which an SUV full of Blackwater operatives had crashed into a U.S. Army Humvee on a street in Baghdad’s Green Zone.
The colonel, who was involved in a follow-up investigation and spoke on the condition he not be named, said the Blackwater guards disarmed the U.S. Army soldiers and made them lie on the ground at gunpoint until they could disentangle the SUV. His account was confirmed by the head of another private security company.
Asked to address this and other allegations in this story, Blackwater spokesperson Anne Tyrrell said, “This type of gossip has led to many soap operas in the press.”
As if being trapped in the middle of a bloody civil war by their civilian leadership hasn’t been humiliating enough for our troops, we find out they also have to protect themselves from high-paid thugs from Blackwater
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These Blackwater guys think they're so tough. A bunch of pansy republicans if you ask me. Beating on innocent children, wow aren't they tough?
ReplyDeleteThey are bush's version of alQueda. NOTHING more than a bunch of crazy fucking rednecks, much like bush.
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