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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 08:47 AM
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Blackwater Founder's Visions of Christian Supremacy in Iraq



Explosive allegations concerning Blackwater have recently become public in a bombshell of a story published by Jeremy Scahill, a man who has been on the Blackwater beat for years now.

Two individuals, a former employee and a Marine who used to work as a security operative, allege that Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, may have murdered or assisted in the murders of individuals who were helping federal authorities investigate his company.

What’s striking isn’t that Blackwater and murder is in the news. Blackwater has a history of being linked to allegations of murder (for example, the Nissour Square killings on September 16, 2007).


The most salient part of this news are the words written in a five page declaration by a former member of Blackwater’s management team, who is being referred to as “John Doe #2” because he fears he may face violent retaliation if his identity is found out.

Doe #2 alleges that Prince “views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe":

To that end, Mr. Prince intentionally deployed to Iraq certain men who shared his vision of Christian supremacy, knowing and wanting these men to take every available opportunity to murder Iraqis. Many of these men used call signs based on the Knights of the Templar, the warriors who fought the Crusades.

Mr. Prince operated his companies in a manner that encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life. For example, Mr. Prince's executives would openly speak about going over to Iraq to "lay Hajiis out on cardboard." Going to Iraq to shoot and kill Iraqis was viewed as a sport or game. Mr. Prince's employees openly and consistently used racist and derogatory terms for Iraqis and other Arabs, such as "ragheads" or "hajiis."

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Starfighter Donating Member (13 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 08:55 AM
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1. Jeremy Scahill was on Olbermann
Blackwater informants expose Crusaders and murders

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CxIR7a0DXg
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CanonRay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 09:11 AM
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2. Someone want to explain to my why we're still paying these bastards?
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AntiFascist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-06-09 11:41 AM
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3. Eliminating the Islamic Faith fits right in with neoconservative ideology....

if you read some of Michael Ledeen's writings, and he did consult Karl Rove (known as Rove's Brain) then no Muslim can ever be trusted and we must wage a broad-based war against all of them. This is precisely why the alliance between the neoconservatives and the Religious Right in the previous administration was so dangerous.
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