Blackwater contract renewal not approved by Iraq: Maliki

[maddezmom]

Source: AFP

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said the the US State Department had renewed the contract of private security company Blackwater USA without the approval of the Baghdad government.

Blackwater is the most controversial of several private security firms tasked with protecting high-profile US officials and foreign diplomats in Iraq.

The company's guards shot dead 17 Iraqi civilians while escorting an American diplomat through Baghdad in September 2007 in an incident denounced as a crime by the Iraqi government.

Blackwater says its guards reacted in self-defence.

"As far as Iraqi government is involved, this issue is still under consideration and we are still discussing principles upon which foreign security companies must operate, especially this company because they committed a massacre against Iraqis and until now this matter has not been resolved," Maliki said on Monday in an interview with US television network CNN.



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[bluesmail]

1. so what are they going to do with all those excess mercenaries?

bring them back to USA and put them to work?

[Ian_rd]

2. Sure. They could patrol our polling places.

To protect us from terrorists (and making a bad decision at the poll too, of course).

[superkia]

4. Sure, our government gave them a $15 billion contract to fight...

the so called war on drugs here in America. We also have to remember that bush could still call for martial law if he doesn't want to leave power if say Obama is looking good in the GE polls, 150,000 mercenaries could manhandle us pretty well. Hell, with all of bushs executive orders they could pretty much call whoever they wanted terra suspects and throw us in FEMA camps without representation until they could beat us down enough. There are all kinds of options on the table for the corrupt, its the American people that really dont have many options.


What represents what is taking place in America more ?

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

[OregonBlue]

5. Agreed. Once the military is finally, truly broken, who will defend the United States?

Blackwater, et al! This is not an accident, it is the plan.

[Javaman]

3. "without the approval of the Baghdad government."

sooooprise, sooooprise, sooooprise!!

so al-Maliki, how does it feel now to know that you are, in fact, a puppet and that moron* wasn't kidding when he* said he* will be pulling the strings?

sucks much?

[tanyev]

6. Bush admin to Maliki: "So?"

[happygoluckytoyou]

7. APPROVAL??? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING APPROVAL!!!

HE IS JUST COVERING HIS POPULUS SUCKING, USA ASS-KISSING BY ACTING AS IF HE IS AGAINST IT....

----HEY MALIKUS.... YOU ARE OCCUPIED!!! LIKE AN AIRPORT RESTROOM!! JUST GRAB YOUR ANKLES AND GET OCCUPIED... THAT IS WHY NOBODY IS ASKING YOUR MEANINGLESS OPINION

WE OWN YOU AND YOUR COUNTRY.... PUPPET LEADER.... MAYBE ONE DAY YOU CAN BE A REAL BOY