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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-04-07 10:38 PM
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Contractor involved in Iraq shooting got job in Kuwait
Source: CNN

A Blackwater USA employee who was fired after he allegedly shot and killed an Iraqi security guard on Christmas Eve last year was hired by another private contractor to work in the region less than two months later.

Andrew J. Moonen returned to the United States within a few days of the incident, his attorney said, but in February he returned to Kuwait, working for Defense Department contractor Combat Support Associates (CSA), a company spokesman said.

Mooney worked for CSA from February to August of this year, spokesman Paul Gennaro said.

Because the State Department and Blackwater kept the incident quiet and out of Moonen's personnel records, CSA was unaware of the December incident when it hired Moonen.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/04/blackwater.contractor/index.html
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spag68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-04-07 11:15 PM
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1. Stop calling them contractors
They are paid mercenary's And though they may have been decent people once, now they are more like thugs.
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