Blackwater guards killed 16 as U.S. touted progress

[Newsjock]

Source: McClatchy Newspapers

By Leila Fadel
McClatchy Newspapers

BAGHDAD — On Sept. 9, the day before Army Gen. David Petraeus, the U.S. military commander in Iraq, and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker told Congress that things were getting better, Batoul Mohammed Ali Hussein came to Baghdad for the day.

... Hussein, who was on the opposite side of the street from the construction site, fell to the ground, shot in the leg. As she struggled to her feet and took a step, eyewitnesses said, a Blackwater security guard trained his weapon on her and shot her multiple times. She died on the spot, and the customs documents she'd held in her arms fluttered down the street.

... During the ensuing week, as Crocker and Petraeus told Congress that the surge of more U.S. troops to Iraq was beginning to work and President Bush gave a televised address in which he said "ordinary life was beginning to return" to Baghdad, Blackwater security guards shot at least 43 people on crowded Baghdad streets. At least 16 of those people died.

... Still, it was an astounding amount of violence attributed to Blackwater. In the same eight-day period, according to statistics compiled by McClatchy Newspapers, other acts of violence across the embattled capital claimed the lives of 32 people and left 87 injured, not including unidentified bodies found dumped on Baghdad's streets.


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[Fridays Child]

1. k/r

:cry:

[peacetalksforall]

2. I say these are massacres. Corporate massacres. Not new for the U.S.,

It is the neo-con PNAC corporate baron multi-national new world of order.

Facilitated by Christians.

[bobthedrummer]

7. Facilitated by those that call themselves Christians and do the evil

in their hearts, combined with the corruption of organized religion by special interest groups using them as a refuge for their evil agenda(s).

That's the BFEE, mercenaries like Blackwater are part of it, Erik Prince got his funding from fundamentalists that worship a lot of things except Jesus Christ, the Son of God even though their houses of worship bear His name.

They worship all the things of a culture of death, the darkside is their master, mammon their altar.
And that's not Christian at all.

Examples:
"The Far Right in West Michigan: Erik Prince" (from Media Mouse.org)
http://www.mediamouse.org/resources/right.php?personId=8

Erik Prince Source Watch.org profile
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Erik_Prince

"Security Company Death Squads Timeline by Dirk Adriaensens and Sarah Meyer" (started 9-25-2007)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x309935

Most Christians have had this brought to their attention and oppose it. This Christian does.

Btw, Mr. Cheney is meeting with a "secret" group that was founded in 1981 by Tim LaHaye, they are having their "secret" meeting in Utah tomorrow-this "secret" group is the Council for National Policy chock full of 21st century Pharisees as well as BFEE's fascists--what Christian would want to be associated with RW folks that use the name of Jesus Christ to commit evil?

Council for National Policy page from Source Watch.org
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Council_for_National_Policy

IMPEACH CHENEY FIRST

[5X]

3. Makes you wonder how many of the dumped bodies found around the

country may be dumped by the mercenaries.

[MetaTrope]

8. And how many mosques were blown up by them

There have been those scattered reports of Americans "securing" mosques that were rubble by morning...

[burrowowl]

10. Yes, it makes you wonder!

[Eric J in MN]

4. I just sent this article to both my Senators and my Congressman...

...with the words "Stop funding Blackwater" above.

If you want to do the same, here is contact info for Congress:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/

Enter your zipcode on top left.

[OwnedByFerrets]

5. I am more and more ashamed

to be an american. Even though I was against this from the start, I am still complicit. The world hates us and they have every right.

[NutmegYankee]

6. We need to turn these mercenaries over to the Iraqis.

This is what gallows were made for.

[Eric J in MN]

9. kick

kick

[Oilwellian]

11. Is this not...

the very definition of terrorism?

[Hulk]

12. BACK OUR THUGS!!

When are we going to put these ribbons on the back of our cars? Such air heads!!

[dailykoff]

13. "ordinary life was beginning to return" to Baghdad

For chimpco, privatized murder is ordinary.

[bjobotts]

14. Iraqis don't seperate Blackwater from America. Blackwater is making sure Iraqis will hate us

forever. The may fear us and get out of the way but as soon as they can find a way they will come for revenge for the cold blooded murders by state department's mercenaries. Rice protects these murderers for $. The occupiers should be forced from their country if they will not leave when asked to leave. We may call our mission there what ever we want... but the Iraqis call it murder and destruction, fear and chaos by an occupation army who is stealing their resources while propping up a corrupt ministry.
We bring nothing but shame to both our nations with our hypocrisy. Soon the whole world will hate us as we will be seen more and more as Blackwater America.

[bobthedrummer]

15. kick

IMPEACH CHENEY FIRST