Possible theory regarding the blackwater contractors that were killed.

AlCzervik

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Tue May-11-04 02:35 PM
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Possible theory regarding the blackwater contractors that were killed.

Humor me for a moment please

Is it possible that the people that killed those four guys new about what was going on in the prisons and decided to exact revenge? i am in no way excusing what they did but i think it's possible.

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LittleApple81

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Tue May-11-04 02:36 PM
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1. I think they were mercenaries, probably involved in killings and

mistreatment...They probably had been spied doing something to somebody.

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mhr

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Tue May-11-04 02:37 PM
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2. My Theory, They Were Sacrificed By The CIA, An Excuse To Attack Fallujah

Your theory is viable as well.

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AlCzervik

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Tue May-11-04 02:49 PM
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9. Maybe like recon

kind of like during ww2 when they used to sacrafice the tank crew checking out landmind placement in enemy territory. Makes sense, but i do wonder if some of the "Detainees" when returning home and i'm sure some lived in Fallujah that they told theie friends and neighbors what happened to them.

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Tue May-11-04 02:39 PM
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3. Invading the country seems like more than enough of an excuse

There is a heavy tradition of revenge/justice over there. There are going to be such reactions for some time.

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nostamj

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Tue May-11-04 02:39 PM
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4. IIRC

these mercenaries killed/wounded civilians in Fallujah and that's why the retribution happened...

who knows, this is the SMOG of 'war'

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Loonman

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Tue May-11-04 02:39 PM
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5. I don't know.....

I think they were in the wrong place.

Fallujah was already declared a restricted area for American civilians, so what they were doing driving around in there is a mystery.

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Solomon

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Tue May-11-04 02:40 PM
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6. Can't you just imagine military types telling the contractors, "you can

do things that we can't do"?

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arcane1

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Tue May-11-04 02:43 PM
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7. perhaps Sadr's paper was printing stories from released detainees

Bremer shuts the paper down, and net thing you know, mercs are being hung from bridges

makes sense to me

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bobthedrummer

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Tue May-11-04 02:46 PM
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8. Iraqi women and kids were shot in the face by mercenaries like Blackwater

Edited on Tue May-11-04 02:47 PM by bobthedrummer

at a demonstration protesting the closure of a newspaper.

Iraqis were increasingly becoming aware of the crimes the world now sees-some of the CACI mercenaries pictured in the photos from Abu Ghraib are evidence of the guilt of mercenaries in this, mercenaries that someone gave the authority to order US military to participate in criminal behavior and conspiracy.

Then the USMC was ordered to take reprisals for mercenaries in Falluja:grr:

NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.

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DinahMoeHum

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Tue May-11-04 03:13 PM
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10. It's plausible - the killers may have had relatives in that prison

who were humiliated and photographed.

Consider also that the abuses occurred in October-December 2003.
The reports started trickling out in January, adding to rumors heard much earlier.
The Blackwater employees were killed end March 2004.

Yeah, could well have been revenge.

:nuke:

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maggrwaggr

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Tue May-11-04 03:36 PM
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11. Yes. It's all here in this post

(posting this for the umpteenth time, but i'll keep doing it). :)

It's a must-read post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1517119

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mopaul

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Tue May-11-04 03:39 PM
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12. very likely

for two years people go in the prisons, get tortured humiliated or killed, then released to tell the others. they wreak revenge on our troops and they say they are being attacked by 'insurgents'.

blood begets blood. apparently, the god who all christians muslims and jews worship needs a lot of fresh blood.

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