does THIS sound like things are getting better in iraq to YOU? it sure as shite doesn't to me.
a us state department motorcade being fired upon? a PRIVATE security firm (wonder which one it was. they are not releasing any names yet) firing AND KILLING innocent civilians. suicide bombers everywhere. al-qaeda in iraq everywhere...........and blood fills the streets
State Dept. Convoy Attacked in Baghdad, Sparking a Shootout
Security Guards Kill 9 Civilians, Iraqis Say
By Joshua Partlow Washington Post Foreign Service
BAGHDAD, Sept. 17 -- A U.S. State Department motorcade came under attack in Baghdad on Sunday, prompting security contractors guarding the convoy to open fire in the streets. At least nine civilians were killed, according to Iraqi officials.
The shootout occurred in the downtown neighborhood of Mansour at midday after an explosion detonated near the convoy, police said. In response, the security contractors "escalated the force to defend themselves," a U.S. Embassy official in Baghdad said.
Iraqi officials alleged that the response by the security company, which was not named, involved excessive force and killed innocent civilians. The Iraqi government will investigate the incident and "probably will withdraw the authority for this security company in Baghdad," said Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, an Interior Ministry spokesman...........
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I heard the security company was Blackwater. I'm not big on shadowy conspiracy theories but one that gives me the creeps is a government approved mercenary force outside the military chain of command. Throw in the fact that it is not subject to the same Uniform Code of Military Justice all the members of the armed forces have to work under and you have an organization that can at the very least begin to write its own rules in other countries and at the worst be used by power hungry tyrants-in-waiting in the US government for a whole host of nightmares inside this one.
yes they finally said it was blackwater. they also said they ONLY had 1,000 people in iraq.i so doubt that. why? because the number of contractors in iraq EXCEEDS the number of our troops there. it's king george's fault THEY are there as well of course
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