Iraqis speak of random killings committed by private Blackwater guards

Source: UK Times Online

Guards employed by Blackwater, the US security company, shot Iraqis and killed victims in allegedly unprovoked and random attacks, it was claimed yesterday.

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In Baghdad yesterday, some Iraqis said they believed that the case was a last chance for justice and an opportunity for America to divorce the behaviour of its military from the private guards.

Farid Walid, who was shot in Nisour Square two years ago during a massacre that killed 17 Iraqis, said: “Everybody here knows of cases where Blackwater guards shot innocent people without a second thought. They are a symbol of the occupation. Nobody will forget. But Iraqis might think at least a little differently of America if the killers are put in prison.”

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Other families have tales of shootings allegedly committed by Blackwater, which has since changed its name.

Abu Suhad lost his daughter in 2007 when she was driving her car near the Iraqi Foreign Ministry in central Baghdad. He said: “Eyewitnesses told me that four white Blackwater cars went by her. Three were already past when the last one shot her in the head at close range and killed her. The eyewitnesses said they were very bewildered why they shot her. The bullet came from the driver’s window, which means that he got next to her when he shot her. The bullet entered from under the ear and left from the upper side of her skull. There were bits of her hair and skin on the car roof.”

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Major-General Fathel al-Barwari, commander of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces, said he was gathering evidence of illegal weapons trading by the company. As a result, Blackwater could also face criminal prosecution in Iraq, where it is now banned, but other companies connected to Mr Prince still operate.

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6742135.ece

Republicons + Occult Evil-doing Family Values Pharisees.

Has anyone seen any of this latest Blackwater/Xe stuff reported on any mainstream media? I haven't. Not really surprising but still outrageous.

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It's so sad that so much of our taxpayer money employed these monsters.

Dear god, what the american taxpaying dollars have subsidized..... The Horrors!

I'm sure we've all noticed this trend in our media, in our discourse, and even in our laws, where non-americans are never believed. I've seen so many people dismiss anything said by a person in the third world simply because they are in the third world, and thus apparently have no credibility.